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Kaitlyn is a senior editor at Cup of Jo, where she has interviewed writers like Roxane Gay, Barbara Kingsolver, and Chanel Miller. Her essays have appeared in Orion, Catapult, Electric Lit, Prairie Schooner, and elsewhere, and she has taught writing at Western Washington University. In the words of poet Kate Baer, Kaitlyn’s 2026 essay collection Little Apocalypses; Essays on Motherhood, Climate Change, and Hope at the End of the World is “raw, undeniable and tender … [digging] deep into what it means to parent in a heated world. Teer's voice holds both the ache of looming climate chaos and the unshakable hope that caring can change everything."
She lives in Washington State with her husband and two children.
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MOM BRAIN is a monthly reading and conversation series with writers, for parents.* The session closes with our guest reading a kids’ book of their choice. Like story time, but with books for grown-ups too! Babies and kids welcome, but not required ✨
*Open to parents, caregivers, grandparents, chosen family, the parent curious, etc.
Hosted by Caroline Calvert, Claire Seizovic, and Erica Stern.
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Previous Mom Brain writers include Lucy Knisley, Megan Stielstra, Francesca T. Royster, Sophie Lucido Johnson, Rachel León, and Shayne Terry. Check out the Mom Brain shop on Bookshop.org to find and purchase works from our past, present, and future writer-readers, as well as some of our favorite books about motherhood, family, caregiving, pregnancy, birth, and fertility.
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