The Stories
Adele Ngoy is a mother, a business owner, a home health aid, and a fashion designer. After immigrating to the United States from the Democratic Republic of
Congo a decade ago, Adele missed the International Women’s Day celebrations she participated in at home in Africa. So, in 2010, she brought a little bit of Africa to Portland, Maine through organizing an International Women’s Day Gala.
Donna Broderick and Ellie Daniels catch babies. They don’t use a mitt or a net, but their hands, knowledge, and intuition. Donna and Ellie are midwives andassist dozens of women every year with the delivery of their new children. Working at their practice in Belfast, Maine, the midwives not only serve the greater-Belfast, Maine area with all of their home birthing needs, but also lobby for legislative and economical recognition of the trade they embrace passionately.
Grown This collection of short, non-fiction essays was composed over a semester (well, to be honest, a few stories were written or imagined some time before) to fulfill the requirement for a senior thesis to acquire a Bachelor’s of Art at Wells College in Aurora, New York. It features stories about siblings, sickness, silliness, and animal placentas. Above all, however, Grown is about what the title suggests: growing, and all of its attendant victories and struggles.
