Book and Baby by M. M. De Voe Book Event In Conversation with Richard Jeffrey Newman

Join M. M. De Voe in conversation with Richard Jeffrey Newman discussing Book and Baby, The Complete Guide to Managing Chaos and Becoming A Wildly Successful Writer-Parent. 

Book & Baby, The Complete Guide to Managing Chaos & Becoming A Wildly Successful Writer-Parent is an inspiring writing craft book that addresses the various stages of parenthood and how a writing career can be affected at every stage.

M. M. De Voe is a Manhattan-based, internationally-published, multi-talented author who has won awards in literary fiction, poetry, flash, humor, essays, longform nonfiction, and horror. Known for Pen Parentis, a 501c3 literary nonprofit she founded to help maintain a creative practice for writers who have kids, she’s a Columbia University MFA graduate who studied under Michael Cunningham, Richard Howard, and Helen Schulman.

Richard Jeffrey Newman is the author of three full-length collections of poetry, T’shuvah (Fernwood Press 2023), Words for What Those Men Have Done (Guernica Editions 2017), and The Silence of Men (CavanKerry Press 2006). He has also published three books of translation from classical Persian poetry, Selections from Saadi’s Gulistan and Selections from Saadi’s Bustan (Global Scholarly Publications 2004 & 2006) and The Teller of Tales: Stories from Ferdowsi’s Shahameh (Junction Press 2011). His essays and reviews have appeared in a range of publications, including The American Voice, On The Issues, Salon, Unlikely Stories, American Book Review, LitHub, and Solstice. He has been curating and hosting the First Tuesdays reading series in Jackson Heights since 2012. Newman is retired Professor of English and Creative Writing at SUNY’s Nassau Community College, where he taught for thirty-six years.