Heather Kirn Lanier

Heather Kirn Lanier is working on a collection of essays about disability and parenting, to which “SuperBabies Don’t Cry” belongs. She received a 2016 Vermont Creation Grant for the project and has published related essays in The Sun, America Magazine, and Salon. She is also the author of the nonfiction book, Teaching in the Terrordome: Two Years in West Baltimore with Teach For America, as well as two award-winning poetry chapbooks. You can sometimes find her blogging at starinhereye.wordpress.com.

FeaturesApril 7, 2017

SuperBabies Don’t Cry

By Heather Kirn Lanier

When I was pregnant, I tried to make a SuperBaby. I did not realize I was doing this. I believed I’d long ago shed the theory that a body could be made perfect. But looking back, my goal was clear.