Angela Garbes
Author of Like a Mother, and Essential Labor
Angela Garbes
Angela is a writer based in Seattle, Washington, where she lives with her family on Beacon Hill. She is the author of Like a Mother, a narrative nonfiction book exploring the emerging science and cultural myths of pregnancy. Like a Mother was an NPR Best Book of 2018, a finalist for the Washington State Book Award in Nonfiction, and deemed “excellent” by the New York Times. Her next book, Essential Labor, on care work and mothering as social change, will be published by Harper Wave in May 2022.
Her writing has appeared in the New York Times, The Cut, New York, Bon Appétit, and featured on NPR’s Fresh Air. In a previous life she was the staff food writer at The Stranger in Seattle. She is proud to have started my career as a beat writer at a local alt-weekly. She also cohosts The Double Shift, an independent podcast challenging the status quo of motherhood in America.
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