Lilly Dancyger is the author of FIRST LOVE: ESSAYS ON FRIENDSHIP (The Dial Press, 2024), and NEGATIVE SPACE (SFWP, 2021). She lives in New York City, and is a 2023 NYSCA/NYFA Artist Fellow in nonfiction from The New York Foundation for the Arts. Her writing has been published by Guernica, Literary Hub, The Rumpus, Longreads, Off Assignment, The Washington Post, Playboy, Rolling Stone, and more. She teaches creative nonfiction in MFA programs at Columbia University and Randolph College.

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Reading My Way to a Decision About Motherhood

By LILLY DANCYGER

What I want, more than I want a child or a childfree life, is to make a decision and feel sure it was the right one.