My work as a writer is to connect research with reality, mesh mind and heart, and play with form. My work as a writing coach/mentor and as a founder of multiple initiatives at the intersection of writing, community, and education is to help people who are overflowing with ideas find, hone, and sustain their creative life’s work.

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.

My essays appear in literary magazines 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 and features appear in venues including Harvard Business Review, The Washington Post, The Guardian, CNN.com, The Forward, Kveller, Slate, Ms., The Huffington Post, and The American Prospect.