Robin Greene is Director of the Writing Center, and Professor of English and Writing at Methodist University in Fayetteville, NC. She is co-founder and editor of Longleaf Press, publishes regularly in literary journals, and her latest novel, The Shelf Life of Fire, is due out in 2019. Greene's collection of birthing narratives, Real Birth: Women Share Their Stories, is available through Amazon.
AGAINST THE GRAIN OF MOTHERHOOD: POST-PARTUM PSYCHOSIS AND THE NARRATIVE WE DON’T WANT TO TELL Worst Night I stand by the crib. My son, just fifteen days old, sleeps inside. It’s three-something in the morning, and I alternate between pacing the room, sitting on the nearby rocking chair, and standing by the crib….
