The Natural Mother of the Child: A Memoir of Nonbinary Parenthood

Emily Pérez is the author of House of Sugar, House of Stone and the co-editor of the forthcoming anthology The Long Devotion: Poets Writing Motherhood. A CantoMundo fellow and Ledbury Emerging Critic, her work has appeared in RHINO, Cosmonauts Avenue, Prairie Schooner, and The Guardian. She is a high school teacher in Denver, where she lives with her family.

Emily Pérez

A Lesson in Courage and Tenderness: On Krys Malcolm Belc’s “The Natural Mother of the Child”

"As far as I'm concerned, being any gender is a drag." — Patti Smith

Gender &amp; Sexuality

Emily Pérez is the author of House of Sugar, House of Stone and the co-editor of the forthcoming anthology The Long Devotion: Poets Writing Motherhood. A CantoMundo fellow and Ledbury Emerging Critic, her work has appeared in RHINO, Cosmonauts Avenue, Prairie Schooner, and The Guardian. She is a high school teacher in Denver, where she lives with her family.