Andrew Hudgins on “Katie Dammit”
When I was asked to write about an angry baby, I thought of an act of toddler ferocity I’d witnessed when a colleague brought her [...]
Margaret Luongo on “Functional Aesthetics”
SONY DSC Though my first thoughts when approached with [the Very Angry Baby] assignment were "kitten" and "cancer," in that order, it's the [...]
Craig McDaniel on “Play Acting”
“Play Acting” aims to balance several obsessions. Firstly, I am a writer who enjoys experimenting with language as meaning (i.e., narrative, character development, etcetera), language [...]
Ricardo Almonte on “Babyproof”
I wrote the first draft of “Babyproof” eleven years ago, in a single six-hour sitting, as an attempt to make sense of several previous relationships [...]
Tania Hershman on War Games (or The Failure to Plot)
My very angry baby story, “War Games,” emerged during a writing workshop being given by my co-tutor on one of the Arvon foundation’s five-day residential [...]
Jamie Quatro on “First Song”
“First Song” (titled after the Galway Kinnell poem) is a much-revised version of one of the first stories I ever wrote. I was twenty-four and pregnant and [...]
Julianna Baggott on “Marie Curie’s Monster Baby”
Another contributor to A Very Angry Baby: The Anthology provides insight on her story's conception: I was obsessed with Marie Curie years ago while writing [...]