Monica Wesolowska has published both fiction and memoir in numerous literary journals and anthologies including Best New American Voices 2000, The Carolina Quarterly, Quarter After Eight, Literary Mama, and the New York Times Bestseller My Little Red Book. A graduate of Reed College and a recipient of a fellowship from the Fine Arts Work Center in Provincetown, Massachusetts, she has taught writing at the University of California Berkeley Extension for a decade. She lives with her family in Berkeley, California.
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Holding Silvan:
A Brief Life
- Introduction by Erica Jong
- nonfiction / memoir
A tender, poignant and courageous narrative – insightful and beautifully written.
- Abraham Verghese
- Author of Cutting for Stone
In the opening of Holding Silvan, Monica Wesolowska gives birth to her first child, a healthy-seeming boy who is taken from her arms for “observation” when he won’t stop crying. Within days, Monica and her husband have been given the grimmest of prognoses for Silvan. They must make a...Forward
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Good Reads Giveaway for Monica Wesolowska’s memoir, Holding Silvan: A Brief Life.
For a chance to win a copy of Holding Silvan: A Brief Life, go to Good Reads. Contest ends December 15, 2014.
An Interview with Memoirist Monica Wesolowska by StoryShelter
This week on the Live Like You Mean It Podcast I talk to Monica Wesolowska, author of the acclaimed memoir, Holding Silvan: A Brief Life. The true story of losing her first-born child, Holding Silvan...Forward
Abiding with the Living and the Dying: Thoughts on Holding Silvan, by Ellen Painter Dollar for Patheos: Hosting the Conversation on Faith
In her memoir Holding Silvan: A Brief Life, Monica Wesolowska conveys two primary facts—first, that she loved her son Silvan deeply, and all decisions about his living and dying were motivated by...Forward
Holding Silvan by Monica Wesolowska continues to garner attention:“Ms. Wesolowska’s writing is unsentimental, but the power of the emotions is inescapable,” by Judy Mintz
Memoirs aren’t easy to sell, unless your last name is Kardashian, or your nickname is Snooki. Even beating cancer (which sounds like a hell of a story to me, because who doesn’t like a tense...Forward
Congratulations Monica Wesolowska, author of Holding Silvan: A Brief Life, who has a Modern Love piece this Sunday in The New York Times!
Every couple has a story, and this was ours. We were prepared to weather storms. For our wedding, we skipped the tissue paper and cream-colored card stock of standard invitations. Instead, we glued a...Forward
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