We’ve often asked ourselves whether our work will have any lasting impact on the world.

The answer just arrived via an email from a woman we met at AWP.

Robbi,

I read Babies Ruin Everything to my husband the night I got home from AWP–he’s a fiction writer, I’m a poet, we both love dark humor. He laughed out loud through the whole reading, noticed the baby peeing throughout, and it is final: No second baby for us.

Thanks for making this book. It will be on my nightstand for a long long time to come.

Valerie

You heard it here first. Thanks to our books, the world’s population will soon diminish, and all culture, learning, and human progress will eventually cease as a rampant anti-procreation movement spreads across the planet.

How’s that for a legacy?

I have to admit, I’m kind of proud.