Antonia Malchik

Full-time motherhood and full-time writing involve strangely similar frustrations, rewards, and challenges (although very different amounts of sleep). Nurturing becomes the amorphous, malleable byword. We nurture our ideas, our stories, our children, our narratives, and our creative selves. How much weight we give to these commitments depends on the needs of each at any given time.

My daughter was born last year, and as she becomes more independent (read: ready for a part-time babysitter) I am returning to two novels in progress: Nadia's Lost, a futuristic novel about dealing with grief in a world defined by emotional control; and To the Bone, the first of a series of mystery novels featuring journalist/travel writer Lee Hansen and mathematician Nikki Towner, half-sisters who would rather ignore each other than work together.

For more information on stories and essays in progress, please refer to the Fiction and Nonfiction sections on this Web site.



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Nonfiction

 

The pull of wilderness, the lure of much-loved cities, the sharp sting of Russia in wintertime. These essays range from the character of place, to the heartaches of motherhood, to facing my own atheist convictions.