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This Mama Is Lit!

Holly Rizzuto Palker co-hosts Literary Mama’s monthly podcast, This Mama is Lit!, featuring interviews with mama writers.

Jane Friedman: On the Desire Not to Have Children

May 15, 2024

Jane Friedman chats with Holly Rizzuto Palker and Amanda Fields about her publishing guru status, The Business of Being a Writer, and her choice not to have children. She also talks about her relationship with her mother and more.

Jessica Strawser: Starting Over in Every Way Possible

May 1, 2024

Jessica Strawser chats with Holly Rizzuto Palker and Brianna Avenia-Tapper about her newest book, The Last Caretaker. She talks about how her children inspire her writing, how her characters always try to do the right thing, domestic violence and more.

Tiffanie Drayton: Demon Slayer, Here We Come

April 3, 2024

Tiffanie Drayton sits in the Literary Mama guest chair with Amanda Fields, Holly Rizzuto Palker, and Brianna Avenia-Tapper to discuss her memoir Black American Refugee, abusive relationships, racism and inequity, and the horrifying landscape of the U.S. family court system.

Estelle Erasmus: New Ways of Being Me

March 6, 2024

Holly Rizzuto Palker and Brianna Avenia-Tapper chat with author, Estelle Erasmus, about her book Writing That Gets Noticed, about being a midlife mom, and about how she re-invented herself during motherhood.

Sue Shapiro: Did I Marry the Wrong Person?

October 30, 2023

Holly Rizzuto Palker, Brianna Avenia-Tapper, and Amanda Fields talk with Susan Shapiro, an award-winning writer and professor about infertility.

Alyssa Ages: Betrayal of the Body

December 11, 2023

Holly Rizzuto Palker and Brianna Avenia-Tapper talk with Alyssa Ages about strength. Ages is a mom, strongman competitor, endurance athlete, and freelance writer.

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