Jun 22, 2026 · 1 hr 26 min · 15 segments
#### Subtitle: State of the Workflow Myke talks to Loryn Brantz – illustrator, poet, and bestselling author – about her journey from Sesame Street and BuzzFeed to becoming an independent creator, how…
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Myke HurleyHost
Loryn BrantzGuestJason SnellHost
the way that I came across your work, as I'm sure that many people do, especially people in my situation, having just had a kid, is through your poems on parenting, and you post those to Instagram, and you also have a book.
What encouraged you to start writing them? So they are poems and illustrations that you do as well.
You know, I had always been writing poetry for children, and then I'd always been writing comics for adults, and I never really gave the poetry that much thought.
But one night, we all had colds, like the entire family was sick, and slept in like two days.
And so I'm in bed, and I'm like, "I'm gonna unwind by looking at cute pictures of him." [laughs]
And then he starts crying, and I was like, "Oh, my God," and, um, immediately, like, wrote a poem about it, which was the first poem I wrote for Poems of Parenting, where it's like, "Oh, my God, shut up.
You know, he had to put himself back to sleep 'cause I was like, "Mommy's writing poetry now about this."
So [laughs] it was good 'cause he, like, got a little bit of sleep training in.
So once you started writing them, how long was it until you started publishing them?
I was working with Ms. Rachel at that time and had just kind of been like, "You know what? I'm done with BuzzFeed.
I wanna take a break and work on something else," and I hadn't done anything for myself in a while.
So I started posting them, and I was like, "I'm gonna do it every day." So I was getting all these messages about the poems, and I was lying in, I'm always lying in bed.
the way that I came across your work, as I'm sure that many people do, especially people in my situation, having just had a kid, is through your poems on parenting, and you post those to Instagram, and you also have a book.
What encouraged you to start writing them? So they are poems and illustrations that you do as well.
You know, I had always been writing poetry for children, and then I'd always been writing comics for adults, and I never really gave the poetry that much thought.
But one night, we all had colds, like the entire family was sick, and slept in like two days.
And so I'm in bed, and I'm like, "I'm gonna unwind by looking at cute pictures of him." [laughs]
And then he starts crying, and I was like, "Oh, my God," and, um, immediately, like, wrote a poem about it, which was the first poem I wrote for Poems of Parenting, where it's like, "Oh, my God, shut up.
You know, he had to put himself back to sleep 'cause I was like, "Mommy's writing poetry now about this."
So [laughs] it was good 'cause he, like, got a little bit of sleep training in.
So once you started writing them, how long was it until you started publishing them?
I was working with Ms. Rachel at that time and had just kind of been like, "You know what? I'm done with BuzzFeed.
I wanna take a break and work on something else," and I hadn't done anything for myself in a while.
So I started posting them, and I was like, "I'm gonna do it every day." So I was getting all these messages about the poems, and I was lying in, I'm always lying in bed.
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