Kristen Millares Young went looking for God and found a woman, found a goddess, found herself. She went looking for new stories about girlhood, motherhood, womanhood and found an origin story, her own but also that very first story of that very first woman. No, a goddess. The goddess, mother of all the gods.
In this way, Desire Lines, Millares Young’s debut memoir out October 2026 from Red Hen Press, is a sort of map, an “emotional topography” whose routes and ridges take her from Anatolia, home of the meteoric myth of the divine mother, to Millares Young’s ancestral homes in Spain and Cuba, to her grandmother’s kitchen, then far, far beyond it.