Mothering Outside the Lines: Tales of Boundary Busting Mamas

BettyAnn Martin is a narrative scholar interested in the reconstruction of experience through story, and the manner in which creative engagement with memory transforms individual consciousness. She re-discovered the therapeutic aspects of storytelling and writing while completing her PhD in Educational Sustainability from Nipissing University. Edited collections include Writing Mothers: Narrative Acts of Care, Redemption, and Transformation (2020) and Taking the Village Online: Mothers, Motherhood and Social Media (2016). BettyAnn continues to research and write about motherhood and its implications for identity and healing. Michelann Parr is mother to three children and nana to two. As full professor in the Schulich School of Education at Nipissing University, research interests include narrative inquiry, autoethnography, identity as lifework, sustainability as relationship with self, other, and all our relations, and family engagement. Recent and upcoming edited collections include Writing Mothers: Narrative Acts of Care, Redemption, and Solidarity (2020) and What the Pain of Mothers Must Never Expose (pending).