This special issue on “Mothers, Mothering and Motherhood in Literature” features eleven articles, fifteen book reviews, and a special poetry folio featuring the work of Jennifer Givhan. Articles include: •Maternal ecocriticism and the ecology of motherhood •The power of a Black mother’s anger •Masculine expansions of othermothering •A discursive analysis of single mother memoirs • Literary narratives of kinship, maternal desire, and precarity •Negotiating academe with a chronically ill child •Lessons in life on the verge of death •Othermothering and othermothers in the Harry Potter series •Australian motherhood memoir as personal, creative and political narrative •and many more!