Lisa Ampleman
Lisa Ampleman is the author of a chapbook and three full-length books of poetry, including Mom in Space (forthcoming 2024) and Romances (2020), both with LSU Press. Her poems and essays appear in journals such as 32 Poems, Colorado Review, Ecotone, Image, and the Southern Review. She is the managing editor of the Cincinnati Review and poetry series editor at Acre Books.
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Lunar Deceptions
“Genetically, all women are mosaics.” In utero, the double X chromosomes need paring: we can’t have the same gene expressing twice. So, some genes turn off, allowing their parallel to do the work instead. But “in certain cells, the X chromosome inherited from the mother is inactivated, while in other cells the X chromosome inherited […]
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Mom in Space: Lisa Ampleman on Her New Book
In the Q&A below, Lisa Ampleman, discusses her new book Mom in Space which was released in January 2024 and includes “Lunar Deceptions,” featured in Volume 72.2 of Shenandoah. Mom in Space is a complicated love letter to both the intergalactic and the terrestrial. Using the lens of spaceflight, Lisa Ampleman explores subjects ranging […]