Stephanie Land

Land is the author of Class: A Memoir of Motherhood, Hunger, and Higher Education and Maid: Hard Work, Low Pay and a Mother's Will to Survive

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We Had Little Money. My Kid Still Deserved Joy

'Class' author Stephanie Land on creating special moments for her child amid financial precarity

By Stephanie Land

I Left Poverty After Writing 'Maid.' But Poverty Never Left Me

I signed my first book contract without paying much attention to what it said. I didn’t know at the time that the book would be a best seller or that it would one day inspire...

By Stephanie Land

Biden, Harris and the Return of Empathy

When election results first began to trickle in on Tuesday, I’d already been reliving several days’ worth of PTSD from what I’d experienced in 2016. I was still a single parent then, with two young...

By Stephanie Land

What I Learned About Grief After Miscarriage

I stood, gardening gloves still covered in dirt from digging out the last of the hole with my hands, and let out the breath I didn’t realize I’d been holding. My husband walked over and...

By Stephanie Land
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