Vicki Forman (’94) is the author of This Lovely Life: A Memoir of Premature Motherhood (Houghton Mifflin/Mariner Books), winner of the PEN Center Literary Award in Creative Nonfiction, the Bread Loaf Writers’ Conference Bakeless Prize and was selected as a 100 Best Book by the San Francisco Chronicle. Her work has appeared in the Seneca Review and the Santa Monica Review as well as the anthologies, Love You to Pieces: Creative Writers on Raising a Child With Special Needs, and Literary Mama: Reading for the Maternally Inclined. She wrote a column at Literary Mama for several years, has been a fellow at Bread Loaf Writers’ Conference and a resident at the Cottages at Hedgebrook.