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  • Allison Carter

    IMG_20131017_125123Allison Carter is a content strategist and freelance writer. She has happily made a career writing content, blogging, speaking at conferences, and consulting. But her heart is in her creative pursuits. She blogs regularly(ish) at Go Dansker Mom. Here she delivers heartfelt pieces on parenting, Martha Moments, lists, tips, and whatever else modern moms think about. She has two boys and is happily married so there are a lot of dirt and bugs in her life.  Her writing has appeared on Scary Mommy, Felicity Huffman’s site What the Flicka?, Mampedia.com, Mamalode, Mom365, in the book The Her Stories Project: Women Explore the Joy, Pain and Power of Female Friendship, and many local news outlets and papers. 

    She finds writing the most rewarding when it is the hardest.  The more she cries while writing the more she feels healed when the piece is done.  She wishes she could send apologies like her essay in this anthology to everyone she has ever wronged.  But it would probably take more days than she has.
     
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  • Julie DeNeen

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    Julie DeNeen is a full-time web designer and blogger, making her mark on the Internet with a tech blog called Fabulous Blogging. An award winning lifestyle blogger as well, she was chosen as Anderson Cooper’s blogger of the day in 2012 and appeared on Anderson Live several times, as well as BBC World Have Your Say. Off the Internet, she is a mom of three, a musician, foodie, and theater buff.

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  • Liz Dolan

    lizdolanLiz Dolan’s poetry manuscript, A Secret of Long Life, nominated for the Robert McGovern Prize, will soon be published by Cave Moon Press.

    Her first poetry collection, They Abide, was published by March Street. A six-time Pushcart nominee and winner of  Best of the Web, she was a finalist for Best of the Net 2014. She has received fellowships from the Delaware Division of the Arts, The Atlantic Center for the Arts and Martha’s Vineyard. Liz serves on the poetry board of Philadelphia Stories. She is most grateful for her ten grandchildren who pepper her life.

    Her essay in My Other Ex, “An Ear for Language” tells the story of the loss of my childhood friend because of schizophrenia.

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  • Sandy Ebner

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    Sandy Ebner lives and writes in Northern California. Her essays have been published or are forthcoming in the San Francisco Chronicle, Connotation Press: An Online Artifact, Dead Mule School of Southern Literature, The Doctor T.J. Eckleburg Review, and other publications. She writes about a wide variety of topics, but is most interested in social and cultural differences and how they influence our lives.

    Her essay, “The Clothes I Was Wearing,” was named a finalist in both the 2012 Press 53 Open Awards and the 2012 Glass Woman Prize, in addition to being nominated by Connotation Press for a Pushcart Prize. She holds a Bachelor’s Degree in Journalism from California State University, and is an alumna of the Community of Writers at Squaw Valley. She is working on her first novel.

    Her My Other Ex essay “Jesse Lee” was written after she realized that her own selfishness — rather than Jesse’s — had contributed to the deterioration of their long friendship. The friendship was renewed not long before Jesse’s death earlier this year. Due to the subject matter of the piece, all names except for the author’s have been changed.

    Sandy can be found on Facebook, Twitter, and Linkedin.

     

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  • Estelle Erasmus

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    Estelle Erasmus is an award-winning journalist and former magazine editor who lives with her husband and five-year-old daughter in New Jersey. She co-authored the book Beautiful Skin: Every Woman’s Guide to Looking her Best at Any Age (Adams Media), and has contributed to three other popular anthologies, including The ASJA Guide to Freelance Writing (St. Martin’s Press) and What Do Mothers Need? Motherhood Activists and Scholars Speak Out on Maternal Empowerment for the 21st Century (Demeter Press).

    Estelle writes about her transformative journey through midlife motherhood with a young daughter on her blog Musings on Motherhood & Midlife and at the Huffington Post.

    She is a 2014 and 2012 BlogHer Voices of the Year, a 2014 Disney Social Media Mom, A 2014 National Geographic Kids Insider, a member of the inaugural New York City 2012 production of Listen to Your Mother and past President of the Board of Directors for Mothers & More. She writes for the Huffington Post, is a columnist for examiner.com, has been syndicated on BlogHer.com and has been published in workingmother.com, The New York Daily News,  projecteve.com,  kveller.com and Erma Bombeck Writers’ Workshop. She is a top 10 Circle of Moms Winner for Best Family Blog by a Mom.

    Her story for My Other Ex, “A Friendship in Time” depicts the wisdom gained during a 14 year break with a good friend, and the rewards garnered once they are reunited.

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  • Victoria Fedden

    ???????????????????????????????Victoria Fedden received her MFA in Creative Writing from Florida Atlantic University in 2009. She lives in Fort Lauderdale, Florida and her essays have appeared in Real Simple, The South Florida Sun Sentinel, Chicken Soup for the Soul, Florida English and many anthologies. Her first memoir Amateur Night at the Bubblegum Kittikat was published in 2013 and she is a regular contributor at elephantjournal.com. Visit her blog at http://www.widelawns.blogspot.com or on Facebook.

     

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