Inspired by Goethe’s ‘delicate empiricism’, Maggie Nelson and Sontag, Crossman’s fieldnotes from the maternity ward offer a roaming inquiry, a visceral record of the first hours and days after giving birth.
Susanna Crossman
Susanna Crossman is an Anglo-French fiction writer and essayist. She has recent/upcoming work published in Paris Review, Aeon, Neue Rundschau (S. Fischer), We’ll Never Have Paris (Repeater Books), Trauma, (DodoInk 2020), 3:AM Journal and elsewhere. She is a co-author of the French book, L’Hôpital Le Dessous des Cartes (LEH 2015), and her debut novel Dark Island will be published by Delcourt (FR) in 2021. For more info, please visit: http://susanna-crossman.squarespace.com
WHO SUPPORTS US
The team of MAI supporters and contributors is always expanding. We’re honoured to have a specialist collective of editors, whose enthusiasm & talent gave birth to MAI.
However, to turn our MAI dream into reality, we also relied on assistance from high-quality experts in web design, development and photography. Here we’d like to acknowledge their hard work and commitment to the feminist cause. Our feminist ‘thank you’ goes to:
Dots+Circles – a digital agency determined to make a difference, who’ve designed and built our MAI website. Their continuous support became a digital catalyst to our idealistic project.
Guy Martin – an award-winning and widely published British photographer who’s kindly agreed to share his images with our readers
Chandler Jernigan – a talented young American photographer whose portraits hugely enriched the visuals of MAI website
Matt Gillespie – a gifted professional British photographer who with no hesitation gave us permission to use some of his work
Julia Carbonell – an emerging Spanish photographer whose sharp outlook at contemporary women grasped our feminist attention
Ana Pedreira – a self-taught Portuguese photographer whose imagery from women protests beams with feminist aura
And other photographers whose images have been reproduced here: Cezanne Ali, Les Anderson, Mike Wilson, Annie Spratt, Cristian Newman, Peter Hershey