Beth Feldman
Beth Feldman is the founder of RoleMommy.com, an online community and events company dedicated to inspiring, entertaining, and empowering today’s busy moms to pursue their passion while raising a family.

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Tracy BeckermanTracy Beckerman writes the syndicated humor column, LOST IN SUBURBIA, which is carried by over 400 newspapers nationally in 25 states and read by more than 3.5 million people.

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Beth Blecherman started her career in application development then Senior Manager, Computer Process Integrity, for Deloitte.  After senior management she took on family management, blogging as her career 2.0. She is a Co-Founder Silicon Valley Moms Group, collaborative mom blogs across the country.

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Ciaran Blumenfeld is a writer, designer, and creative social media consultant. She is the creator of the “Francie Pants” children’s clothing line and is the owner/editor of Popshopology.com (dedicated to retail therapy) and Carand Caboodle (dedicated to family travel and transportation). Ciaran is the proud mom of four deeply unique and different children who have humbled and taught her so much over the years, while keeping her constantly on her toes. She loves all her children dearly, even when they make an ungodly mess and teach her that she does not know it all, after all. She also still loves Thai food, despite the incident included in this book.

Melissa Chapman and her brood of three live in the urban concrete jungle of NYC. When she’s not busy putting someone in a time-out, stepping on action figures, hand-feeding her dog/child or braiding hair, she’s trying to find indulgences that remind her of her prekid days when she felt sexy and no one ever called her ma’am! But above all else, she has taken a solemn vow to never under any circumstances succumb to slipping on a pair of mom jeans! She contributes to Time Out NY Kids and iVillage, writes a blog called “This mom wouldn’t be caught dead wearing mom jeans,” and a weekly column for the Staten Island Advance.

Danielle Dardashti is the Integrated Sales Manager for Meredith Video Solutions, the division of Meredith Corporation that creates Parents TV. Previously, she ran the sales department at Connect with Kids. She is an Emmy award-winning former on-air television reporter, a published author of three books for parents and educators, has produced critically-acclaimed television documentaries, and has written parenting articles for national magazines. Danielle lives in White Plains, NY with her husband Roni Sarig, and their children Uri and Raquel.

Vanessa Druckman is a freelance writer, blogger, and mother to three little monsters. She just relocated to Ohio from New Jersey with her family, having only begun to own up to being a Jersey Girl, a label she never imagined having grown up in France. She blogs about cooking and parenting at www.chefdruck.com.

Nancy Friedman was an award-winning freelance television writer and producer for such clients as HBO, Lifetime and Nickelodeon until she decided to stop making money and start writing. Her humor essays have been syndicated in the online versions of The Miami Herald, The Sacramento Bee, The Fresno Bee, and The Charlotte Observer, among others. Nancy has ghost-written two books on interior design, and her work has appeared in the anthologies The Knitter’s Gift, (Adams Media, 2004) and The Bigger the Better the Tighter the Sweater (Seal Press, 2007). She is a contributor to NYCMomsblog.com, and TravelingMom.com. FromHipto Housewife.com is her blog about momming, aging, and her twenty year quest to lose the same ten pounds. She lives in NYC with her husband and boy/girl twins.

Andrea Forstadt lives on Long Island, NY and is the mom of four, including one-year-old identical twin boys (who, she was told, were supposed to be identical twin girls; you’ll have to wait for that story in the sequel).

Sara R. Fisher is an off-ramped mother of a toddler-aged son living in Chicago. A former employee-relations consultant, Sara now spends her days scheduling play dates, maximizing nap time, and trying to use the adult side of her brain every once in awhile. A burgeoning writer, Sara’s work has been published in Chicago Parent magazine, the Washington Post’s On Balance blog, Babble.com, and her blog, selfmademom.net.

Liz Gumbinner is the voice of the popular parenting blog Mom-101 which has been featured in The New York Times and called “funny some of the time” by an enthusiastic anonymous commenter. She’s also the co-founder of the shopping and design blog Cool Mom Picks. Her humorous (some of the time) take on parenting can be found in magazines like Brain, Child, and New York Parent, and in the books Sleep Is for the Weak, True Mom Confessions, and 42 Rules for Working Moms.

Jenny Baitch Isenman is a freelance humor writer, wiper of tushies, noses, and countertops . . . not in that order. She has two beautiful, amazing, perfect children who always do and say the right things. She has written for local and national magazines. She currently writes for multiple sites including, iVillage.com, NewParent.com, CityMommy.com, and JewishTimes.com. She has a hilariously funny and relatable blog called Suburban Jungle.net. She guarantees that reading it will make you tanner, smarter, and reduces cellulite.

Meredith Jacobs is the author of The Modern Jewish Mom’s Guide to Shabbat (HarperCollins), host of the radio show Connecting Family (WYPR-FM), and the television show Modern Jewish Mom (The Jewish Channel). She lives in Rockville, MD with husband Jonathan, daughter Sofie, son Jules, insane-dog Mac, and a tank of seahorses. Sofie survived the traumatic incident revealed in her mom’s essay and went on to co-author a book with Meredith titled: Just Between Us: A Journal for Mothers and Daughters (Chronicle Books, Spring 2010).

Sue Levine Kupcinet is a teacher, creator of many items, published author with Simon and Schuster Chicago Gourmet, co-owner of “Yenta Sentiments” greeting cards, wife of 41 years, mother of two and grandmother of four.

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Sherry Shealy Martschink has had a varied career, from state senator to clown. Or perhaps that’s not so varied at all! She has been a member of the SC House of Representatives, of a local school board, and of the SC State Senate.

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Issa M. Mas is a native New Yorker and an advocate for Single Moms everywhere. She currently writes a column for www.Examiner.com about family events in New York City. A passion for writing began early for Issa; she was presented her first award for a piece of her writing at only seven years old by then-New York City Mayor Edward Koch as a city-wide winner of a poetry contest. Issa is a published poet, writer of children’s books, blogger (Single Mama NYC), and founder of www.YourSingleParenting.com—a resource website for all single parents.

Jenna McCarthy is an internationally-published writer and the author of The Parent Trip: From High Heels and Parties to Highchairs and Potties, and Cheers to the New Mom/Dad! Her work has appeared in more than 50 magazines, on dozens of websites, and in several anthologies including the popular Chicken Soup series. She has held staff positions for leading publishers in New York and Los Angeles, and for two years served as the co-host of the top-rated KTYD Early Show. She lives in lovely Santa Barbara, CA, where she enjoys sculpting Play-Doh and watching the value of her home plummet. Jenna currently is hard at work on her next project, a practical guide to living with and continuing to love the TV-addicted, sex-obsessed, listeningimpaired Neanderthal you married. In her spare time, she wonders what she used to do with all of her spare time. Visit her online at www.jennamccarthy.com.

Dawn Meehan grew up in Chicago where she began her writing career at the age of five with her widely praised, “The Lucky Leprechaun,” an epic tale of a leprechaun who was yes, you guessed it, lucky. Dawn has six children, basically because she didn’t want seven. She is the author of “Because I Said So” and spends her days blogging at BecauseISaidSo.com, changing diapers, cleaning pudding off her ceiling, tackling insurmountable piles of laundry, and explaining to her kids why they can’t have a pet squirrel or an indoor slip-n-slide.

Janie Lam Meyers grew up, married, and raised her family in suburban Philadelphia, PA. She currently lives with her husband, Gene, in Charlotte, NC, where they take pleasure in “empty nesting.” They are the proud parents of three grown daughters, a son-in-law, and three grandchildren. She enjoys a part-time career in sales and marketing, taking writing courses, and being an author. She is currently working on her first fiction novel.

Jeanne Muchnick is a multitasking mama who’s been writing about her two girls ever since they were in utero. She’s the former Editor of Baby Magazine turned freelancer whose parenting stories have appeared in a variety of national and local magazines including The New York Times, The Boston Globe, Woman’s Day, Ladies’ Home Journal, Parents, Parenting, Pregnancy, Women’s Health & Fitness, FamilyFun, InTown Magazine, The Daily News, Westchester Magazine, and more. She has also contributed to momlogic.com, momcentral. com, travelingmom.com, and sprout.com, though she admits she’s still “old-fashioned” and prefers reading/writing for magazines. She lives in Larchmont, NY with her two (now teenage and embarrassed to be with her) daughters, her husband Mark, and her shedding (and annoying) flat-coated retriever, Chip. When she’s not writing, you can find her doing the laundry, picking up the dry cleaning, food shopping, vacuuming, and stocking up on red wine.