Cynren Press

06/18/2026

In "Dames, Dishes, and Degrees," Amy Mittelman looks closely at faculty wives' clubs and the women whose unpaid labor helped sustain academic institutions across the twentieth century.

It is a history of expectation, constraint, organizing, and autonomy, and of women finding ways to claim lives beyond the roles assigned to them.

Now available from Cynren Press: http://www.cynren.com/ad-dames

06/16/2026

Today we’re proud to publish Amy Mittelman’s "Dames, Dishes, and Degrees: Faculty Wives in America."

Amy has written a deeply researched history of the women who worked behind the scenes of American higher education, building clubs, networks, philanthropies, and identities of their own within institutions that often depended on their labor while refusing to recognize it.

With admiration and thanks to Amy on publication day.

Available now: http://www.cynren.com/ad-dames

Amy launches the book tonight at Amherst Books at 7 PM.

06/11/2026

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06/11/2026

Amherst-area readers: Amy Mittelman will launch Dames, Dishes, and Degrees at Amherst Books on Tuesday, June 16 at 7 PM.

Join us for a conversation about faculty wives, women’s history, and the unpaid social labor that helped shape American academic life.

Amherst Books
8 Main Street
Amherst, MA
Tuesday, June 16 at 7 PM

06/09/2026

Thank you to YA Books Central for featuring N.T. McQueen’s Never Hide from the Devil, a young adult novel of courage, friendship, and impossible choices during the Armenian Genocide.

Read the feature: https://yabookscentral.com/never-hide-from-the-devil/

06/07/2026

Behind ivy-covered walls, faculty wives were asked to host, organize, mentor, support, and disappear into the work.

Amy Mittelman’s Dames, Dishes, and Degrees restores them to the history of American higher education.

Coming June 16 from Cynren Press.

06/06/2026

The Alchemy of Motherhood is out now.

Casey Keen’s memoir gives language to birth trauma, postpartum depression, postpartum anxiety, and the systems that too often leave new mothers unsupported during one of the most vulnerable periods of their lives.

Available now: https://www.cynren.com/ad-alchemy

05/29/2026

"The Alchemy of Motherhood" by Casey Keen. Out now.

http://www.cynren.com/ad-alchemy

05/28/2026

We’re pleased to share that Casey Keen, author of "The Alchemy of Motherhood," has published a new essay in "Undark" examining postpartum and the limitations of the standard six-week checkup.

The piece reflects many of the questions at the heart of "The Alchemy of Motherhood."

http://www.cynren.com/news/casey-keen-undark-postpartum-care

Casey Keen, author of The Alchemy of Motherhood, publishes a new essay in Undark exploring postpartum recovery, maternal health, and the limitations of the standard six-week postpartum checkup.