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Sarah is available by request for group or individual memoir and fiction writing classes. She loves to help people discover their voice and craft their narrative and has experience leading writers through every stage of the process, from brainstorming to polished piece.
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Unruly Mothers & Other Stories
Course Description: Unruly Mothers & Other Stories will center around texts–three novels and one memoir– that examine and, more importantly, challenge representations of mother figures. Beginning with one of the seminal novels about an “unruly mother” and moving to more contemporary representations of motherhood, we’ll examine how each text defines or upsets traditional narratives about mothers and how it reckons with tensions between personal freedom and responsibility and creation and destruction. Finally, we’ll explore the intersections of motherhood, feminism, race, and class and ask how the readings are in conversation with one another and with the world we live in. Together, we’ll read The Awakening by Kate Chopin, The School for Good Mothers by Jessamine Chan, The Garden by Clare Beams, and Mothers and Other Fictional Characters by Nicole Graev Lipson.
Required Reading
10/03 The Awakening by Kate Chopin
11/07 The Garden by Clare Beams
12/05 The School for Good Mothers by Jessamine Chan
Essays from Mothers and Other Fictional Characters by Nicole Graev Lipson, will be assigned for each meeting.
Offered Fall 2025 through the Osher Institute of Lifelong Learning at Colorado State University