Ellen Weir Casey is the mother of Colorado’s first “test-tube baby.” Her debut memoir, “Unstoppable: Forging The Path To Motherhood in The Early Days Of IVF,” is the first-person account of a patient’s experience in the dawning days of assisted reproductive technology. Casey is a passionate advocate for the family building technology of IVF and […]
Kathryn Eastburn
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SunLit Interview: When prose failed her after her son’s death, a Colorado mother turned to poetry
Diane Alters, a Colorado Springs-based former journalist and college professor, turned to poetry in 2012 when her son, Armando Alters Montaño, 22 and known as Mando, died suddenly and violently in Mexico City. Already an accomplished student journalist, Montaño had recently graduated from Grinnell College, interned with the New York Times, The Chronicle of Higher […]
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SunLit Interview: Erika Krouse couldn’t ignore her own sex assault in a broader investigative story
Erika Krouse is the author of “Come Up and See Me Sometime,” a New York Times Notable Book, and “Contenders,” a finalist for the VCU Cabell First Novelist Award. She teaches creative writing at the Lighthouse Writers Workshop and lives in Colorado. Her debut memoir, “Tell Me Everything,” has been optioned for TV adaptation by […]