Book Launch Party: Notes to New Mothers

Pomegranate Books will have copies available for purchase at the event. Register for the Book Launch Party About the Writers Rebecca Knight is the author of the novels Hex and The Sunlit Night, the poetry collection Lofoten, and co-editor of Notes to New Mothers. She served as screenwriter and executive producer of the film adaptation of The Sunlit Night, which premiered at the Sundance Film Festival.

Her essays and criticism have appeared in The New Yorker, The Paris Review, and The New York Times, among other publications. Julie Buntin is the author of Famous Men and Marlena, the latter a finalist for the National Book Critics Circle’s John Leonard Prize. Her writing has appeared in The Atlantic, Harper’s, and The New York Times.

A former editor and director of writing programs at Catapult, she is currently an assistant professor at the University of Michigan and co-editor of Notes to New Mothers. Emily Louise Smith is the publisher of Lookout Books, which she cofounded in 2009, and Ecotone magazine. She directs The Publishing Laboratory at UNCW, where she also coordinates the publishing certificate programs.

Her writing has appeared in Best New Poets, Boulevard, The Southern Review, and Notes to New Mothers, among other publications. KaToya Ellis Fleming is a writer, editor of Lookout Books, and associate professor of publishing arts at UNCW. A recipient of the Oxford American Jeff Baskin Writers Fellowship, her work has appeared in The Georgia Review, The Rumpus, Chautauqua Journal, and Notes to New Mothers.

She is currently working on her bibliomemoir, Finding Frank.