CHILD OF MY CHILD is not your grandparents’ grandparenting collection. In these pages, more than five dozen accomplished literary writers grapple with a full range of issues and emotions facing 21st century grandparents, always in nuanced and skillful poetry and prose. From the contemporary concerns of the caregiving grandparent and the complex relationships of step-families to the timeless joys and fears grandparents experience in every age, CHILD OF MY CHILD speaks to grandparents and those who love them with wisdom and insight.

Featuring the writing of . . .

Barbara Adams

Christine Allen-Yazzie

Diana M. Amadeo

Lynore Banchoff

Helen Bar-Lev

K. Biadaszkiewicz

Regina Murray Brault

Clinton B. Campbell

Sherry Gage Chappell

Elayne Clift

Edward M. Cohen

Barbara Crooker

Darcy Cummings

Laurie Lee Didesch

Meredith Escudier

Michael Estabrook

Barbara Evers

Anne C. Fowler

Hugh Fox

Lewis Gardner

Sandi Gelles-Cole

Carol Gordon

John Grey

Nancy Gustafson

Werner Hengst

Barbara Hoffman

Louise Jaffe

David James

Sheila Golburgh Johnson

Pearl Karrer

Charlene Langfur

Janet M. Lewis

Naomi Ruth Lowinsky

Mary Makofske

Arlene Mandell

Rochelle Mass

Marsha Matthews

Paul Milenski

Linda Lancione Moyer

Pearse Murray

Sheryl L. Nelms

Karen Neuberg

Carol Nolde

Charlotte Otten

Barbara Redfield

Carlos Reyes

Larry Rubin

Natalie Safir

Marian Brown St. Onge

Kenneth Salzmann

Mollie Schmidt

Ada Jill Schneider

Mary Koloda Scott

Joanne Seltzer

Myra Shapiro

Johnmichael Simon

John Oliver Simon

Elaine Starkman

Parker Towle

Karen Waggoner

Donna Wahlert