Jenni Quilter Talks IVF, Fertility, & Her New Book: “Hatching: Experiments in Motherhood and Technology”

Today on the podcast we welcome Jenni Quilter. Jenni teaches at New York University and is the author of New York School Painters & Poets: Neon in Daylight, for which she was a finalist for the 2014 AICA Award for Best Criticism. She has written for the Los Angeles Review of Books, The Times Literary Supplement (London), Poetry Review, and the London Review of Books. Her new book, Hatching, was recently released and is a provocative examination of reproductive technologies that questions our understanding of fertility, motherhood, and the female body. 

In this conversation, we discuss Jenni’s fertility journey, infertility, IVF, and have a detailed conversation about what it means to desire a child and how much freedom reproductive technologies actually offer.

To learn more and purchase: "Hatching: Experiments in Motherhood and Technology” you can click here. 

To listen to our conversation on fertility + egg freezing, mentioned in the episode, with Jaqueline and Kibby on Apple Podcasts click here. It is also available everywhere you listen to podcasts. 

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