Here’s the second installment of the Writer-Parent Spotlight interview series, featuring JT “Jody” Morse, a multigenre writer-parent who lives and writes with palpable passion.

Readers, I’m smack-dab giddy to introduce the new Writer-Parent Spotlight interview series, in which writer-parents I admire answer some (hopefully) fun and thought-provoking questions about their lives as writer-parents.

For the first installment, I interviewed not one but two fantastic writer-parents: Joshua Dewain Foster and Georgia Pearle Foster.

Here are several residencies and fellowships that offer writer-parents money to write, time to write, or both.

Ireland claims a big chunk of my heart. Admittedly, I’m quite American, but as it is for many Americans, when my Irish ancestors sailed across the Atlantic during the famine, they brought echoes of their country that reverberate today in my DNA.

Or at least I like to think so.

I’ve been thinking a lot lately about motherhood and sexuality. How they inform one another, how they can feel at odds. How mothers can embrace their sexuality in a world that values glittery youth and tight skin—and women who don’t walk around with spit up on their shirts.

Here are some ideas for what we as writer-parents can do to help the writers, artists, and families of Ukraine, today and moving forward.