Authors for Maternal Health Awareness to benefit Mommasvoices

Welcome to the Authors for Maternal Health Awareness event! Join us on Mon Nov 11 2024 at 7 PM at Zingerman's Greyline for an evening dedicated to raising awareness about maternal health. We'll have readings by Barrie Miskin, author of HellGate Bridge: A Memoir of Motherhood, Madness and Hope and Julie Buntin, editor of (forthcoming) Notes to New Mother, facilitated by writer and MommasVoices family patient partner, Emily Jace McLaughlin, survivor of peripartum stroke. Come together with fellow book lovers, parents and advocates to support this cause. Learn, connect, and make a difference. Light refreshments served. Literati books available for purchase.

• Author Readings
• Q & A
• Experts and Advocates
• Supporting Our Community by Raising Awareness
• Providing Essential Info to Support Family Members
• Help Transform Maternal Health Outcomes
• Patient Stories
• Audience Discussion
• Light Refreshments

Your ticket purchase supports our community by raising awareness, helps increase knowledge of essential info to support family members, helping to transform maternal health outcomes. Proceeds benefit Mommasvoics, a nonprofit program of the Preeclampsia Foundation.

MoMMAs Voices (Maternal Mortality & Morbidity Advocates) is the first-ever maternal health patient advocates program bringing together real patient and family voices. We're made up of dozens of maternal health organizations who represent all types of maternal health conditions, as well as cross-cutting topics like maternal mental health, racial equity, healthcare delivery, and patient-provider partnership. We sit at the center of maternal health improvements, connecting and training patients with lived experiences, providers, quality improvement leaders, researchers, and policymakers to move forward improvements in maternal care. We are a program of the Preeclampsia Foundation.

Our mission is to amplify the voices of people who have experienced pregnancy and childbirth complications or loss - especially those who have been historically marginalized - ensuring they are equipped and activated as partners with providers and researchers to improve maternal health outcomes.

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Barrie Miskin is the author of the debut memoir Hell Gate Bridge (Woodhall Press, 2024). Her writing has appeared in Romper, Hobart, Narrativelyand elsewhere and her interviews can be found in Write or Die magazine, where she is a regular contributor. Barrie lives in Queens, New York with her husband and daughter.

Julie Buntin grew up in northern Michigan. Her debut novel, Marlena, was a finalist for the National Book Critics Circle’s John Leonard Prize, translated into ten languages, and named a best book of the year by over a dozen outlets, including the Washington Post, NPR, and Kirkus Reviews. Along with Rebecca Dinerstein Knight, she’s the editor of Notes to New Mothers, a collection of dispatches from postpartum life that’s forthcoming from Norton. Her novel-in-progress won the Ellen Levine Fund for Writers Award.

Her writing has appeared in the Atlantic, Vogue, the New York Times Book Review, Guernica, and elsewhere. She has received fellowships from Bread Loaf and the MacDowell Colony. She teaches creative writing at the University of Michigan.

Emily Jace McLaughlin is a writer, and maternal health advocate for Mommas Voices, the Preeclampsia Foundation. She teaches creative writing at the University of Michigan and has served as Assistant Director of the English Department Writing Program and Coordinator of Community-Engaged Writing. She has written for VICE, Catapult, and Warner Brothers Television. She is a certified counselor in wellnes as well grief and trauma work. She survived and recovered from a debilitating peripartum stroke after the birth of her first daughter. Her story has been featured on Propobulica, USA Today's Deadly Deliveries, Connecticut Public Radio, and in The Washington Post. She has spent years researching the maternal health care crisis in the United States while at work on her book: Never a Good Time to Talk About It: Surviving Hemorrhagic Postpartum Stroke.

Huda Altamimi is a patient family partner and maternal health advocate in the Michigan area. She survived an Amniotic Fluid Embolism during the birth of her first child. She endured many complications following her cardiac arrest, such as a DIC, ARDS, 40 blood transfusions, two surgeries, intubated and was immediately admitted to the ICU. She has a masters of public health degree and is passionate to utilize her training and education to speak with providers about the importance of making sure their patients concerns are fully taken into consideration, as it could potentially save a life.

Event Venue & Nearby Stays

Zingerman's Greyline, 100 North Ashley Street, Ann Arbor, United States