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Summer Koester

award-winning writer & performing artist in Lingit Aani, Juneau, Alaska

Summer Koester

award-winning writer & performing artist in Lingit Aani, Juneau, Alaska

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The Mirage of the Creative Mother

The Mirage of the Creative Mother

May 3, 2022May 2, 2022 summer.koester

The other day I came across an article in Slate about a woman in the 1940s who abandoned her toddlers to move to the UK and write a novel. Doris Lessing believed that she could not pursue her creative work while serving in her capacity as a mother. I both admire and despise her.  After two years […]

Posted in BlogTagged children, creating, mothering, parenting, writer, writing
Not Your Typical Newsletter

Not Your Typical Newsletter

December 10, 2021 summer.koester

Friends, If you are receiving this email, it’s because you have followed me here on my website, and for that I am extremely grateful! Today I announce that I just started a brand new NEWSLETTER! In order to receive my monthly (or less than that) newsletter, you will need to sign up at the link […]

Posted in PoemsTagged email, fun, humor, newsletter, writer
about Summer

about Summer

April 30, 2020 summer.koester

Summer teaches Spanish in Juneau, Alaska, where she lives with her commercial fisherman husband and two semi-feral children. She’s not sure how they came to be that way, but let’s just say that the pinecone never falls far from spruce tree. (Until, of course, a squirrel piece-meals it much like Summer eats a blueberry muffin. […]

Posted in PoemsTagged author, prose garden, published, writer1 Comment on about Summer