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Mira Ptacin

Mira Ptacin
Mira Ptacin is the author of the feminist history The Inbetweens: The Spiritualists, Mediums, and Legends of Camp Etna (Liveright, 2019) and the award-winning memoir Poor Your Soul (Soho Press, 2015). She lives on Peaks Island, Maine, and teaches at the Maine College of Art and Design as well as the Maine Correctional Center.
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“The Uterus and the American Dream.” Art-Making and Domestic Labor in Bergman Island

Mira Ptacin on Mia Hansen-Løve’s New Film
January 21, 2022  By Mira Ptacin
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On the Fleeting Wonder of Youth and the Surreal Permanence of Motherhood

Mira Ptacin Reflects on the Vulnerabilities of New Parenthood
December 9, 2021  By Mira Ptacin
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The Woman Who Ran for President Before Women
Could Vote

Mira Ptacin on the Ambitions of Victoria Woodhull
February 10, 2021  By Mira Ptacin
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How Harry Houdini Became the Champion of Mother’s Day

Mira Ptacin on Magic, Mediums, and Mothers
May 8, 2020  By Mira Ptacin
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Hard Truth and Deep Trauma Behind Bars

Teaching Memoir Writing to the Women of the Maine Correctional Facility
March 24, 2016  By Mira Ptacin
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