Angela Garbes

Angela Garbes is an author and journalist who connects personal experience with reporting on care, family life, science, and public policy. Like a Mother examines pregnancy and early motherhood through narrative nonfiction, challenging familiar cultural assumptions while translating scientific research for general readers. Macmillan notes that it was selected as an NPR Best Book of 2018. Garbes later wrote Essential Labor, a national bestseller that widens the discussion to caregiving as socially and economically necessary work. Her journalism has appeared across leading American newspapers, magazines, and food publications, moving comfortably between intimate observation and larger civic questions.