Motherhood in the Arts

Speakers for this event

• Arpita Ghosal

  Arpita Ghosal

  As a child, Arpita Ghosal pestered her storyteller grandmother for “just one more story” so incessantly that her mother taught her to read out of desperation. Her love of stories led her to a PhD in English literature, a career in public and post-secondary education, and a passion for arts journalism. Arpita writes constantly at Sesaya Arts Magazine (sesayarts.com), regularly interviewing artists and authors to help them share their stories. She works at the TDSB, where she has held various teaching and leadership roles. Her life as a mother to three remarkable children and a one-of-a-kind rescue dog yields wondrous stories and experiences. And she remains an avid reader with far too many books teetering on multiple surfaces.

  URL http://www.sesayarts.com/

• Catalina Margulis

  Catalina Margulis

  Catalina Margulis is an author, podcast host and mother of four who has written for many of Canada’s top publications over the past 20 years. Cat was an editor at ELLE Canada, Flare and Today’s Parent, she was a regular contributor to Savvymom and Walmart Canada, and has written for more than 40 publications, including The Globe and Mail and Reader’s Digest. Cat’s book Again, Only More Like You, published by Rising Action, was released in April 2025.Born in Buenos Aires, Argentina, she lives with her family in the suburbs of Toronto, Canada.

  URL catalinamargulis.com

• Lindsay Zier-Vogel

  Lindsay Zier-Vogel

  Lindsay Zier-Vogel is an author, grant writer, arts educator, and the creator of the internationally acclaimed Love Lettering Project. She is the author of the acclaimed debut novel Letters to Amelia, and her first picture book, Dear Street was a 2023 Junior Library Guild pick, a Canadian Children’s Book Centre book of the year, and was nominated for three reader’s choice awards—the Forest of Reading (Canada), a Magnolia Book Award in Mississippi and the Mountain Laurel Award (Pennsylvania). She is co-editing The Deep End: Reflections on swimming with andrea bennett, and her second novel, The Fun Times Brigade is out now.

  URL https://lindsayziervogel.com/

• Teri Vlassopoulos

  Teri Vlassopoulos

  Teri Vlassopoulos has published two books, a collection of short stories, Bats or Swallows (Invisible Publishing), which was nominated for the Danuta Gleed Literary Award, and a novel, Escape Plans (Invisible Publishing). Her fiction and non-fiction has been published in Room Magazine, Catapult, The Millions, The Rumpus, The Quarantine Review, Open Book, and more. She also publishes a regular Substack newsletter, Bibliographic. She lives in Toronto.

  URL https://www.terivlassopoulos.com/