Welcome.

good creatures is a newsletter that uncovers the history and culture and wild animal research (ducks and geese! scientists spraying cocaine inside the nostrils of goats who’ve just given birth! whole galaxies of rats!) that underpin our ideals around American motherhood.

The name comes from an episode of Raised by Wolves.

You can check out my Bookshop site for a curated selection of great books on writing, mothering, doing less, and lots more that’s close to my heart.

About Nancy

I’m a writer and a writing teacher. I’m the author of three books of poetry, most recently Pocket Universe, and co-editor of The Long Devotion: Poets Writing Motherhood. I’m working on a narrative nonfiction book about the animal experience of early motherhood.

I’ve recently written pieces on the damaging mythology of the “golden hour” after birth for Slate and making mom friends for Romper, as well as review-essays on the whiteness of the motherhood memoir and the political nature of motherhood at Electric Literature.

I teach at Stockton University in New Jersey, and I also lead community writing workshops and lifelong learning courses, most recently at the Cooper Street Writing Workshops at Rutgers-Camden, the Stockton Institute for Lifelong Learning, Blue Stoop, and Murphy Writing.

You can find me on twitter (@nancy_reddy) and instagram (@nancy.o.reddy) and read more at my website.

I also write the newsletter Write More, Be Less Careful about why writing is hard & how to do it anyway.

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poet & essayist (The Good Mother Myth, forthcoming with St. Martin's; Pocket Universe, LSU; ed.,The Long Devotion: Poets Writing Motherhood, UGA) writing teacher, mama, yinzer at heart.