“I believe in the power of women’s voices to change the world.”

I wrote that sentence in my first high school term paper. I’ve since found that the lives our words change include our own.

My work as a writer is to connect research with reality, mesh mind and heart, and play with form. My work as a writing mentor and as founder of multiple initiatives at the intersection of voice, community, social change, literature and the arts, is to help creatives step into their public voice and power.

(And I still believe in the power of women+’s voices to change the world.)

 

Books

I write around themes of gender, family, feminism, race, religion, and social justice. In my first book (Only Child: Writers on the Singular Joys and Solitary Sorrows of Growing Up Solo, Harmony/Random House), my co-editor and I asked twenty other literary writers to join us in reflecting on a single, transforming episode that defines each of them as an only child. My second book (Sisterhood, Interrupted: From Radical Women to Grrls Gone Wild / Palgrave Macmillan) explored the fights and frenzies around feminism in America across generations. My third book is under construction.

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Essays & Op-Eds

My essays appear in litmags including TriQuarterly and anthologies including Click: When We Knew We Were Feminists; The Good Mother Myth: Redefining Motherhood to Fit Reality; When We Were Free to Be: Looking Back at a Classic and the Difference It Made; and Third Wave Agenda: Being Feminist, Doing Feminism. Op-eds on politics, parenthood, and more appear in venues including The Washington Post, The Guardian, CNN.com, The Forward, Kveller, Slate, The Huffington Post, The American Prospect, and Ms. Read my latest, “Writing Can Help Us Heal from Trauma,” in Harvard Business Review.

Multimedia

I do TEDx, Live Lit, and podcasts.

Author, twinmama, initiative builder, content whisperer, lake worshipper. 

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