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Placentia is a cross-genre category for books that center on gestation, nurture, and sustaining beginnings—drawing on the Latin sense of “pleasant place” and the echo of the placenta as a life-sustaining interface. It gathers fiction, nonfiction, and poetry preoccupied with origins and care: pregnancy and birth, adoption and caregiving, neonatal science, reproductive justice, ecological symbiosis, community infrastructures, and the creative “womb” of making. Tone ranges from intimate and tender to speculative and uncanny, with settings that function as cradles—wombs, greenhouses, refuges, seed banks, starships, safe houses, and cities that hold life. Placentia is not limited to motherhood; it includes any relational system that shelters and nourishes—between people, species, technologies, or ideas. Readers can expect works that ask how lives are held, fed, and brought into being, and what responsibilities emerge from that profound interdependence.

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