Angela Garbes
American writer
Angela Garbes is an American author. She has written two nonfiction books about motherhood: Like a Mother: A Feminist Journey through the Science and Culture of Pregnancy (2018) and Essential Labor: Mothering as Social Change (2022). Garbes is the daughter of Filipino immigrants. She began her career as a food writer for The Stranger, an alternative newspaper in Seattle.
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