The Language of Mothers

The Language of Mothers is a lyrical weaving of Wright’s matrilineal line of women’s stories from grandmother to daughters that stretch from Dronfield, England, to Honolulu, Hawaii. Wright daringly insists on bringing domestic abuse and mental health narratives to light. The Language of Mothers calls forward generations of women’s voices, telling her mother’s stories of England and survival, her stories as a teenage mother, narratives of escaping domestic trauma, and the language of poetry that illuminates struggles with mental health that should never live in shame.

Rain Wright was born in Big Sur, California and raised in Honaunau, Hawai?i. She acknowledges the Kanaka Maoli land and people whose land and occupied country she writes from in her small cottage in Honolulu. She received her Ph.D. in English with a focus on creative writing from the University of Hawai’ i at Manoa. She teaches as a lecturer at the University of Hawai’ i. Recently, her work has appeared in Fugue Journal, Connotations Press: An Online Artifact, Madras Magazine, The Pinch Journal, and Minerva Rising. Rain is the Prose Editor for Antipodes Journal.