More than the Baby Blues (with Teresa Wong)

Teresa Wong loved her newborn daughter. At the same time, she wondered if she hated her.

After giving birth to Scarlet, Teresa found herself consumed by exhaustion, shame, isolation, and self-loathing. In her graphic memoir, Dear Scarlet: The Story of My Postpartum Depression, she turns that experience into an intimate letter to the daughter she struggled to connect with.

Full transcript is available here at relationscapes.org. 

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About the Guest

Teresa Wong is the author of the acclaimed graphic memoirs All Our Ordinary Stories and Dear Scarlet, both longlisted for CBC Canada Reads and finalists for the W.O. Mitchell Book Prize. All Our Ordinary Stories won two Alberta Literary Awards and was also a finalist for the 2025 Governor General’s Literary Award in nonfiction. Her comics and writing have appeared in The Believer, The New Yorker, McSweeney’s and The Walrus. She teaches graphic narrative through Gotham Writers Workshop and was also the 2021–22 Canadian Writer-in-Residence at the University of Calgary.