Wanting a Child: Twenty-Two Writers on their Difficult But Mostly Successful Quests for Parenthood in a High-Tech Age

by Jill Bialosky (Editor), Helen Schulman (Editor)

Explores the alternative way in which people may become pregnant today and the humor, courage, pain, and joys of becoming a parent

Hardcover

First published May 1, 1998

About the author

Jill Bialosky was born in Cleveland, Ohio. She studied for her undergraduate degree at Ohio University and received a Master of Arts degree from the Writing Seminars at The Johns Hopkins University and a Master of Fine Arts degree from University of Iowa Writer's Workshop.

Her collections of poems are Subterranean (Alfred A. Knopf, 2001) and The End of Desire (1997). Bialosky is also the author of the novel House Under Snow (2002) and The Life Room (2007) and co-editor, with Helen Schulman, of the anthology Wanting A Child (1998).

Her poems and essays appear in The New Yorker, O Magazine, Paris Review, The Nation, The New Republic, Kenyon Review, American Poetry Review among other publications.

Bialosky has received a number of awards including the Elliot Coleman Award in Poetry. She is currently an editor at W. W. Norton & Company and lives in New York City.

Reviews

[Brenda]

This book gave me hope during the darkest chapter of my life. I count it as one of my all time favorites and highly recommend it to anyone facing fertility problems and pregnancy/baby losses. You are not alone and I wish you happiness.

[Tracy Wallace]

I picked out this book in the hopes that reading other people's stories of infertility would make me feel more understood and it would turn out to be some kind of healing experience but reading all these stories of other people going through the same grief as me just ended up making me feel more depressed. I couldn't even get through it.