Drew Calvert’s writing has appeared in Boston Review, The Threepenny Review, The Missouri Review, Commonweal, and other publications. His awards include an Arts Fellowship from the Iowa Writers’ Workshop, an Emerging Writer Fellowship from the Sun Valley Writers’ Conference, and a Fulbright grant for creative writing. Calvert is at work on a book of short stories and a novel.
Sept/Oct 2022
Social Learning
When Astrid, my boss, announced that she was pregnant, we were all surprised, each in our own special way. It was Monday morning, midwinter. Evanston was covered in a plush duvet of snow, and we had just sat down in the meeting room, coffees steaming, limbs and digits tingling from their slow thaw. “FYI,” Astrid said. She was eight weeks along.