Christa Parravani

Christa Parravani is the author of Loved and Wanted: A Memoir of Choice, Children, and Womanhood ( Henry Holt, USA, and Bonnier Books (U.K.) and of the Indie bestselling Her: A Memoir. 

Loved and Wanted was an Entertainment Weekly Best Book of the Fall, a Good Morning America Pick, and a New York Times Editor's Choice. Her was an Amazon Debut Spotlight Pick, an Amazon best book of the month, and an NPR critics pick. Vanity Fair calls Her "astonishing."  In a starred review, Booklist calls Her "raw and unstoppable... a triumph of the human spirit." Her was a Wall Street Journal, Salon, and Library Journal best book of the year. It was a Huffington Post best book of the last five years. 

Parravani's writing has appeared in Vogue, The New York Times, Guernica, Catapult, Hobart, Marie Claire, The Millions, Glamour, The Washington Post, Salon, The Rumpus, The Daily Beast, The London Times, The Daily Mail, The Guardian, and LitHub, among other places. Parravani has received fellowships from MacDowell and Yaddo. She is assistant professor of Creative Writing at West Virginia University. 

Charitable Organization: Planned Parenthood

Praise

“Haunting...more than a beautifully written memoir. [A] powerful and raw love letter.” ―The Washington Post

"[Parravani] dissects the complexity of choice, how our own trauma and relationships inform it, as well as policy and access. She reveals the cost to us all when we fail to openly personalize the politics of abortion in America." ―The New York Times Book Review

"Achingly personal. . . . [Parravani reveals] the ways in which the American health care system denies women agency over their own bodies and their children's futures." ―Entertainment Weekly

"From the guts. Parravani takes her life in hand and confronts the institutions and attitudes that oppress her and countless women just like her. . . . Parravani's narrative is an American story. It doesn't just hit close to the bone; it reveals the skeleton." ―Los Angeles Review of Books