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  • Sue Fagalde Lick

    IMG_0427 (1)Sue Fagalde Lick spent many years in the newspaper business in California before moving to the Oregon coast, earning an MFA in creative writing, and caring for her husband through Alzheimer’s Disease. These days, she focuses on books, essays and poetry when she’s not doing music as a church choir director and singer-songwriter. She lives near Newport, Oregon with her canine best friend, Annie.

    Never one to make friends easily, Sue still has a warm phone relationship with her childhood best friend, but others have dropped off along the way, including the friend she has written about for My Other Ex. She has a new best friend in Oregon. They met coming out of the shrink’s office, where they discovered they had the same diagnosis, the same medications, and the same model car. These days they call each other “sis” and turn to each other when they need help or just someone to talk to. When  “Sis” is visiting her kids and grandkids, they text.

    Having children or not having them can be a real divider among women. No matter how much friends love each other, the children and grandchildren have to be top priority. Feelings get hurt, and the one without kids feels left out. Sue wrote about it in her book Childless by Marriage and continues to blog on the subject at http://www.childlessbymarriage.blogspot.com. Her other books include Stories Grandma Never Told, Freelancing for Newspapers, and Shoes Full of Sand. Visit her website at http://www.suelick.com.

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  • Elline Lipkin

    EllineDuotone2-213x300Elline Lipkin is a scholar, poet, and nonfiction writer who has also worked as an editor for a variety of publications.  Her first book, The Errant Thread, was chosen by Eavan Bolan to receive the Kore Press First Book Award and was published in 2006. Her second book, Girls’ Studies, was published by Seal Press in 2009. Endorsed by Peggy Orenstein and part of the Seal Studies series, Girls’ Studies explores the state of contemporary girlhood in the United States and how gender is imprinted from birth forward.
    From 2004-2006 Elline was a Postdoctoral Scholar with the Beatice Bain Research Group on Gender at UC Berkeley where she also taught for the departments of Gender and Women’s Studies, Comparative Literature, and College Writing.  Since 2008 she has been a Research Scholar with the Center for Study of Women at UCLA.  She attended Wesleyan university and holds an MFA in Poetry from Columbia University and a PhD in Creative Writing and Literature.  Currently, she teaches poetry for Writing Workshops Los Angeles as well as private workshops.
    Her nonfiction writing has appeared in Salon.com and other contemporary sources, and she is widely published as a poet.  She has written on everything from what it meant to be a feminist bride to female mentorship and influence within the literary world.  Her website is http://www.EllineLipkin.com, follow her on twitter at @girlsstudies.

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  • Meredith Napolitano

    headshot (3)Meredith Napolitano is a former music teacher and choir director and current stay at home mom of two little girls, chronicling her balance between the roles of “Meredith” and “Mommy” on her site – From Meredith to Mommy.

    With her stay at home life and a husband who works from a home office, she has family together time all day, every day! Meredith started blogging when she realized that she was spending far too much time on the phone with her best friend, sharing stories from life with two little ones, and it was time to give that poor woman a break and write these stories down. Meredith has had her essays about motherhood featured on the Huffington Post, Scary Mommy, PopSugar Circle of Moms, Mommy Hot Spot, One Stop for Mom, and iVillage Australia. She is a contributor to the 2014 best selling humor anthology I Just Want to Be Alone and will be featured in several upcoming anthologies releasing in late 2014 and early 2015.

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  • Dorothy O’Donnell

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    Dorothy O’Donnell is a freelance writer who lives in the San Francisco Bay Area. She used to think training for marathons and triathlons was hard. Then she became a mom in her forties. Although she’s written about travel, health and business, these days her main focus is writing essays and a memoir inspired by her toughest — and most rewarding — endurance event: raising a child with a mental illness.

    Dorothy’s essays have been featured on Brainchildmag.com, Fullgrownpeople.com, GreatSchools.org, Mothering.com, and on NPR’s Bay Area affiliate, KQED. She won a 2014 MAGGIE journalism award for her GreatSchool’s story “Bipolar at 5?” Dorothy is a member of the Bay Area writing group, Write on Mamas, and has an essay in their first anthology, Mamas Write: 29 Tales of Truth, Wit and Grit.

    Visit her at dorothyodonnell.com and follow her on Facebook or Twitter (@MVDorothy).

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  • Alexandra Rosas

    Alexandra Rosas

    Alexandra is a first generation American who writes humor and cultural memoir for several websites. She was BlogHer Voice of the Year in 2011, 2012, and 2013 and was named a Babble top 100 Mom Blogger. Alexandra proudly presents with the award winning national live storytellers tour TheMoth.

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