Risa Mickenberg is a writer. Her plays have been performed or commissioned at Edinburgh Fringe, SoHo Theater London, the Brighton Festival and South Coast Repertory. Her fiction and humor pieces have appeared in Vice, GrlSquash, The Baffler, Purple, The American Bystander, The Witness and the Pushcart Prize Anthology. Risa has also developed television projects for HBO and received screenwriting fellowships from The MacDowell Colony and Yaddo. (Photo by Billy Erb.)
I wasn’t sure I didn’t want children or marriage. I was terrified of both prospects, but I wanted to explore that path for myself. So I began to write EGG.
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