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Angela Garbes is a writer in Seattle, where she lives with her family on Beacon Hill. She is the author of the national bestseller Essential Labor, called “a landmark and a lightning storm, a gift that will be passed hand to hand for years,” by The New Yorker, and Like a Mother—a narrative nonfiction book exploring the emerging science and cultural myths of pregnancy—which was an NPR Best Book of 2018. She has a TED Talk, has been on The Daily Show with Trevor Noah and Fresh Air with Terry Gross. Her writing has appeared in the New York Times, The Nation, the Atlantic, The Washington Post, New York, and Bon Appétit. In a previous life she was the staff food writer at The Stranger in Seattle. She currently writes about women in midlife for The Guardian and is working on finishing her next book, a memoir about translating herself across language, institutions, and identity.