Cover Photo: Photographs by NASA and Navid Golpour | Photo illustration by Matt Ortile
Photographs by NASA and Navid Golpour | Photo illustration by Matt Ortile

How Did I Get to Thirty-Five Without Really Understanding My Reproductive System?

I wanted to know more about my fertility because I thought it might help me prepare for a someday I wasn’t willing to give up on.

This is My Future, My Fertility, a monthly column in which Karissa Chen wrestles with her questions about fertility, motherhood, and future-planning after thirty-five.

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Taking Charge of Your Fertility

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. Here’s to taking control of the life you want, in more ways than one

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Why didn’t I know any of this before?

I can’t wait to implement all of this.

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Karissa Chen's fiction and essays have appeared in numerous publications, including Gulf Coast, PEN America, Guernica, and Longreads. She was awarded a Fulbright Fellowship to Taiwan in 2015-16 and received a 2019 Fellowship from the New Jersey Council on the Arts, and  is a proud Fellow of both Kundiman and VONA/Voices. She currently serves as the Editor-in-Chief at Hyphen and a Contributing Fiction Editor at Catapult. She is working on a novel.