Episode 96: Interview with Author Amy Gallo Ryan

In episode 96 of Literary Prospects, we talk with author Amy Gallo Ryan about her piercing new memoir, You May Feel A Bit of Pressure: Observations from Infertility’s Heart-Wrenching Ride.

Amy is a Brooklyn-based writer and former Conde Nast magazine editor whose work has appeared in Elle, Cosmopolitan, Self and Real Simple, among other publications. Her personal essays have been published on Motherwell, Literary Mama and MER Literary. You May Feel a Bit of Pressure, an infertility memoir-in-essays, is her first book.

In this interview, Amy talks about the struggles with infertility that inspired the book, structuring a memoir in essays, learning which feedback to pay attention to and which to ignore, and much more.