Monica Cardenas

Monica Cardenas authors the Bad Mothers Substack, which covers reproductive rights and maternal ambivalence in culture and literature. Her novel-in-progress The Mother Law was longlisted in the Lucy Cavendish College Fiction Prize and runner-up in the Borough Press open submission competition. She is from Washington, D.C., but resides just outside London in the Chiltern Hills, where she chairs the Democrats Abroad Women’s Caucus. @monica_is_reading, monicacardenas.com