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Mira Ptacin

Mira Ptacin
Mira Ptacin is the author of the award-winning abortion memoir Poor Your Soul as well as the feminist history The In-Betweens: The Spiritualists, Mediums, and Legends of Camp Etna. She teaches at Colby College as well as the Maine Correction Center, and lives on Peaks Island, Maine. 
http://www.miraMptacin.com


“I Did Not Get Anywhere Until I Became a True Literary Citizen.” Courtney Maum on Making a Writing Career

The Author of The Year of the Horses Talks to Mira Ptacin
July 18, 2022  By Mira Ptacin
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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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