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Amy Bornman

@amybornman.bsky.social

mom 〰️ poet 〰️ sewist 〰️ read my books, Broken Waters (2025), and There is a Future (2021) 〰️ more at amybornman.com

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Matrescence is a Long Season: A Conversation with Amy Bornman Amy Bornman is a writer, artist, and parent living in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. She is the author of two books of poetry, There is a Future (Paraclete Press Poetry, 2020) and Broken Waters (Fernwood P...

"The shape of the writing changes, but the intention is always the same. I want to know what is happening to me. I want to exhale."

Read @heidifettigwriter.bsky.social's profile of poet, zinester, & designer @amybornman.bsky.social in our Jan/Feb issue:

literarymama.com/articles/dep...

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Such an honor. Thank you for doing this Q+A with me, Heidi!

23.01.2025 21:24 — 👍 3    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

My sense of justice feels like it has been run over repeatedly by a semi truck.

23.01.2025 20:36 — 👍 3    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

literarymama.com/articles/dep... It was such an honor to be profiled in the new issue of @literarymama.bsky.social ! The whole issue is wonderful! 💫

22.01.2025 23:29 — 👍 3    🔁 2    💬 0    📌 1
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I read picture books more than novels and it's taking care of me, I think.

open.substack.com/pub/amybornm... I wrote a new essay about reading picture books to my kid

22.01.2025 22:31 — 👍 4    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Motherhood is a muscle you strengthen over time.

22.01.2025 02:39 — 👍 2    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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burrowing into my small and good life.

21.01.2025 13:46 — 👍 2    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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I’ve been disappearing into novels. Really enjoying this one. Interesting spin on motherhood-as-plot. #booksky

21.01.2025 13:13 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0

dinner/bath/bed is the most harrowing part of the day for us moms of little kids

20.01.2025 23:08 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
A sign that reads "All I want is to be someone that makes new things and thinks about them."

A sign that reads "All I want is to be someone that makes new things and thinks about them."

Still thinking about this sign spotted at the @inkandswitch.com get-together:

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today’s blessed object is $4 goodwill shopping cart full of dinosaurs

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shitposting cozy mom content because feels like the world is slowly ending 🙈

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Sunday morning Larry

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everything so ominous right now 🫣😢

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bath aftermath

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I’m realizing I got hooked on TikTok watching clips from boygenius concerts summer of 2023 while extremely pregnant and freshly postpartum. It kept me company 🥲

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greatest accomplishment of 2024 was getting really serious about homemade pizza

18.01.2025 23:33 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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an hour in the studio 🪡

18.01.2025 23:32 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Just started a StoryGraph account, finally! Two audiobooks and one print book finished this year! Reading is going to get me through the existential doom. 🥲 app.thestorygraph.com/profile/amyb...

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Sharing an important cultural artifact with my kids, aka Steve from Blues Clues

16.01.2025 13:36 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0

Hi! Yes, dipping my toe in. Glad to connect here! ☺️

13.01.2025 02:51 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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beauty all around, reminding myself always that this is the good life

11.01.2025 20:26 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0
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I’m really enjoying this book. More plotty than many other novels that hold motherhood as a major theme, in a nice way!

11.01.2025 19:55 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

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