Mama
“You need money?” her mother said, and her voice sounded faint, as though she’d called from a million miles away. Sasi picked at one of the loose threads on her quilt. She knew her mother…
Bellingham Review Contributor
Maureen Bhutong Boyd
Maureen Bhutong Boyd is the daughter of a Thai mother and Scottish Canadian father. Maureen chose to pursue a career as a fiction writer after working as a labor union organizer for over fifteen years. She received her MFA in Creative Writing from Pacific University in 2021. Her MFA thesis became a novel for which she is currently seeking representation, and the short story “Mama” is excerpted from that novel.
Maureen was a finalist for the William Van Wert Award for Fiction and participated in the Bay Area juried writing conference, Lit Camp. She read a selection from her unpublished novel as a Showcase Artist during APAture, Kearny Street Workshop’s festival for emerging Asian Pacific Islander artists. Her writing has also appeared in Joyland Magazine, Buckmxn Journal, and Repave Magazine.
She currently resides in Oakland, California, with her family. You can find out more about her, here: https://maureenbhutongboyd.net/