Maggie Cramer is a teacher, mother, and writer living in Evanston, Illinois. She received her B.A. in English from the University of Wisconsin-Madison and her M.S. in Teaching from Northwestern University. Her work has appeared in East on Central, the Women Made Gallery, and the forthcoming December issue of Mom Egg Review. She was granted the Hollyhock Teaching Fellowship from Stanford University in 2019.
Maggie Cramer’s writing explores the intersections of mythology, ecology, memory, and motherhood. Her work includes creative prose, free verse poetry, and erasure poetry. Her collage/erasure work, in particular, aims to contrast areas of the public domain: politics, business, media, public speaking etc. with the complex interior world of mothering and caretaking. She frequently collaborates with collage artist and sister, Cathleen Cramer.