Haylee Collins on integrating our ever evolving identities and the beauty and pain of motherhood

For over a decade, Haylee Collins has worked across book, magazine, and digital publishing, but it was through the birth of her son that she began to explore the intersection of creativity and motherhood through her own writing.

As she struggled to reconcile the new and renewed aspects of her identity, she found herself considering conundrums commonly faced by mothers who are creatives, and so Howl magazine was born.

Within its pages, Haylee and her subjects explore what it means to be a mother and a creative in a society that places little monetary value on either role, and here, she talks leaving her job in pursuit of creating Howl, setting boundaries in her professional and personal life to avoid the severe burnout she experienced, and her contrasting reflections on the beauty and pain of motherhood.

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