Marina Yuszczuk is a writer and holds a PhD in literature from the University of Buenos Aires. She also works as a journalist and film critic for Página12's cultural supplement, La12, and the magazine La Agenda. She has published several books of poetry, including Lo que la gente hace (Blatt & Ríos, 2012), Madre soltera (Mansalva, 2014), and La ola de frío polar (Gog y Magog, 2015). She recently published the novel La Inocencia (Ivan Rosado, 2017), and the short story collection Los arreglos (Rosa Iceberg, 2017). She lives in Buenos Aires and is one of the editors of the press Rosa Iceberg.

TRANSLATION

Excerpts from Madre Soltera (Single Mother)

By MARINA YUSZCZUK

Sometimes I think becoming a mother destroyed me.