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A.M. Homes is the author of numerous novels and short stories, including The
Safety of Objects, The End Of Alice, Music For Torching and This Book Will Save Your Life (Viking, 2006). Her memoir The Mistress's Daughter will be published by Viking in
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Jordana Horn is a lawyer, writer, mother and person, not necessarily in that order. She has written for The New York Times, The Philadelphia Inquirer, The Los Angeles Times, The Forward and Forbes, among other publications. She is alternatively either hard at work on her first novel or not working as hard on it as she should be. |
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Lauren Hoffman lives, works and chases babies on the Upper West Side of
Manhattan. She received her MFA in creative non-fiction writing from The
New School this spring. |
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Jennifer V. Hughes is a writer whose work has appeared in The New York Times, Mothering magazine and the Columbia Law School Report. She also makes a killer sangria. |
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Marjorie Ingall is a contributing writer at Self and a columnist for The Forward. She's written for Glamour, The New York Times, Food & Wine and Sassy. |
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Leigh-Ann Jackson is a stay-at-home mom, writer and entrepreneur. Pre-baby: Newspaper columnist in Austin, TX. Post-baby: Creator of Swirl Syndicate , a line of T-shirts for multi-culti kids. Leigh-Ann lives in Los Angeles, where she is currently multi-tasking her way into an ulcer (but doing so blissfully...so, no worries). |
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Cord Jefferson, originally from Tucson, Arizona, has been a moonshiner in Saudi Arabia, a soccer star in Tijuana and left for dead in Italy. He is a regular contributor to Filter and his work has appeared in Atomica and The Onion A.V. Club, among other places. He is slowly amassing a book (keyword: slowly). He graduated from the College of William and Mary in 2004 and now lives, and believes, in Brooklyn. |
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Marina Jiménez has been a journalist for sixteen years. She has a master’s degree from the University of London and has worked for CBC Television, The Vancouver Sun, The Edmonton Journal, the National Post and The Globe and Mail. She has won numerous awards, including a 2003 National Newspaper Award and two 2001 National Magazine Gold Awards. She lives in Toronto with her husband, the journalist John Geiger, and their son, Alvaro. |
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Lauren Johnson is in the Master of Fine Arts in Fiction program at the
University of California, Irvine. She is a third generation Californian
and currently lives on an island in Newport Harbor, where she does a lot
of people-watching.
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Steven Johnson is the author of bestsellers Everything Bad Is Good for You and The Ghost Map. His writing has appeared in The New Yorker, Harper's, The Guardian, The New York Times and The Wall Street Journal. Johnson was co-founder of FEED and Plastic.com. He is a Distinguished Writer in Residence at NYU's Journalism Department and the creator of the new community site for neighborhoods, outside.in. |
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Kevin Keck is the author of Oedipus Wrecked, a collection of essays which features work first published on Nerve.com. He is also the father of three children who should be sufficiently embarrassed later in life by what he writes. Visit him at www.thekeck.com. |
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Korinthia Klein is a violin maker and mother of three in Milwaukee, WI. She and her husband are currently collaborating on a book chronicling both their experiences during his deployment in Iraq. |
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Walter Kirn is the author of Thumbsucker, She Needed Me and Up in the Air. He lives in Montana. |
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Alison Lowenstein is a freelance writer and the author of City Baby Brooklyn. She also teaches writing and literature at York College. She is at work on another New York guidebook. Alison lives in Carroll Gardens, Brooklyn, with her husband and two kids. |
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Lynn Harris is author of the new satirical novel Death By Chick Lit and its prequel, Miss Media . A regular contributor to
Glamour, Salon, The New York Times, Nerve, Babble and many others,
she also writes the "Rabbi's Wife" column for Nextbook.org. Visit her at
LynnHarris.net.
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Amy S.F. Lutz's work has appeared in dozens of
literary journals, including Cream City Review, The American
Poetry Review, Puerto del Sol, and Mid-American Review. She and
her husband have five children. She and her sister chronicle their two-family household in the blog whoelsewantstoliveinmyhouse.com |
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Vivian Manning-Schaffel has written for Parents, Parenting, The Advocate, The New York Post, Business Week and a variety of other publications. She lives and works in the heart of breeder Brooklyn with her husband and two kids. She's on the web at vivianmanningschaffel.com. |
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Adrienne Martini has written for the Austin Chronicle and Cooking Light. A former editor for Knoxville, Tennessee's Metro Pulse, her first book is Hillbilly Gothic: A Memoir of Madness and Motherhood. She chronicles her adventures at www.martinimade.com. |
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Neal Medlyn is a performer in New York City who likes to sing pop songs, jump off of things and run amok for a paying audience. He's also the creator of Neal Medlyn's Land of Make Believe on Nerve. nealmedlyn.com. |
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Emily Mendell’s essays have appeared in the Philadelphia Inquirer and she is a regular contributor to iParenting.com. Her story, No Longer a Rookie, will be included in Chicken Soup for the Soul: A Tribute to Moms in early 2008. She lives the Philadelphia suburbs with her husband and two sons and is getting ready to launch her first blog, mothersofbrothers.com, in the Spring. |
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Brooke Morton is the associate editor of Sport Diver magazine and lives in Winter Park, FL. She has also written for the New York Press as well as Travel + Leisure. |
