TouchWood Editions
Memoirs/women's studies
ISBN 10: 1-894898-40-0
ISBN 13: 978-1-894898-40-9
5.5" x 7.5", 176 pages
$19.95, softcover with flaps
Available October

Nobody's Mother
Life Without Kids
edited by Lynne Van Luven
foreword by Shelagh Rogers

Statistics say that one in 10 women has no intention of taking the plunge into motherhood. Nobody's Mother is a collection of stories by women who have already made this choice.

From introspective to humorous to rabble-rousing, these are personal stories that are well and honestly told. The writers range in age from early 30s to mid-70s and come from diverse backgrounds. All have thought long and hard about the role of motherhood, their own destinies, what mothering means in our society and what their choice means to them as individuals and as members of their ethnic communities or social groups. 

Contributors include:
Lorna Crozier, one of Canada's best-known poets, the author of a dozen books and recipient of a Governor General's award and numerous other writing prizes 
Maggie De Vries, children's-book editor and author of Missing Sarah, a memoir about her sister, one of the murdered women from Vancouver's downtown east side
Nancy Baron, a zoologist and science writer who works in the United States for SeaWeb/COMPASS and has won two Canadian Science in Society awards, a National Magazine Award and a Western Magazine Award for Science 
Kate Braid, a creative-writing instructor whose books include Inward to the Bones: Georgia O'Keeffe's Journey with Emily Carr, To This Cedar Fountain, Red Bait! Struggle of a Mine Mill Local, with Al King, and Covering Rough Ground, which won the Pat Lowther Award.

Lynne Van Luven is an associate professor at the Department of Writing, University of Victoria, where she teaches journalism and creative non-fiction. She is also a freelance editor, writer and commentator. She is a regular contributor to Monday Magazine and has edited three anthologies, including Nobody's Father: Life Without Kids.