@maudnewton
Writer, editor, critic. Wrote Ancestor Trouble. NYC/Lenape land. She/her.
Rapture Basement | Short Story | Narrative Magazine
Rapture Basement | Short Story | Narrative Magazine
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Writing, books, art. Kinship, broadly construed. Advocate for acknowledging troubled family histories honestly, open-heartedly, and with imagination. Click to read Meditations on Kinship, by Maud Newton, a Substack publication with thousands of subscribers.
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Wrote Ancestor Trouble, a best of the year per New Yorker, NPR, Washington Post, Esquire. Advocate for acknowledging tough family histories. Most recently in Narrative, Baffler, Guardian, NYT. Opinions mine. NYC. She/her.
My blog
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Maud Newton's blog, founded 2002.
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NY Times review
NY Times review
Maud Newton’s “Ancestor Trouble” is a sweeping genealogical investigation that becomes an investigation of genealogy itself.
My mom gets her "news" from Christian Nationalist TV (Slate)
My mom gets her "news" from Christian Nationalist TV (Slate)
I know everyone’s tired of worrying about people like her. I am, too.
Taking T for Jesus: Transphobic evangelicals hawking hormones (Baffler)
Taking T for Jesus: Transphobic evangelicals hawking hormones (Baffler)
Y’all: The most inclusive of all pronouns (NYT Mag)
Y’all: The most inclusive of all pronouns (NYT Mag)
Acknowledging harms of enslaver ancestors (Guardian)
Acknowledging harms of enslaver ancestors (Guardian)
Amid a rise of laws forbidding discussions of racist histories, sharing our ancestors’ shameful wrongdoings is more urgent than ever
Confronting family trauma at the center of 'Ancestor Trouble' (Esquire)
Confronting family trauma at the center of 'Ancestor Trouble' (Esquire)
I have loved my father and I have feared him, but I have never understood him.
Marriage skepticism: A love story (Harper's Bazaar)
Marriage skepticism: A love story (Harper's Bazaar)
I love being a stepmom, a role I was afraid to take on (Human Parts)
I love being a stepmom, a role I was afraid to take on (Human Parts)
The first time my stepdaughter, Autumn, called me her wicked stepmother, I experienced it as a relief and a kindness. She was well into…
Learning about ourselves through genealogy (WSJ)
Learning about ourselves through genealogy (WSJ)
For people who feel driven to explore their ancestry, compiling a family tree is often about rediscovering something that’s been lost.
On Threads
On Threads
On Medium
On Medium
Editorial services (currently closed to new clients)
Editorial services (currently closed to new clients)
Maud Newton is seasoned editor, writer, and book critic whose current editorial services focus on writers whose projects center on their own ancestors.
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