Maureen Pendras is a writer and psychoanalyst living in Seattle, WA. She is a faculty member at the Seattle Psychoanalytic Society and Institute and has a private practice. Currently she’s at work on an essay collection and her essay, "Her Name is Mama," was recently published in Under the Sun magazine. Her friends own a restaurant in which they describe their fare as Earth Food for Earth People, and this is one possible description of her writing.