Columnists
Leslie Morgan Steiner shares her thoughts each week in her column, Two Cents on Working Motherhood. She is the editor of the best-selling anthology Mommy Wars: Stay-at-Home and Career Moms Face Off on Their Choices, Their Lives, Their Families. Steiner regularly discusses working motherhood on the Today Show, MSNBC, and in Newsweek,Vanity Fair, Parents, The New York Times and The Los Angeles Times. Leslie lives with her husband and three children in Washington, DC.
Risa Green authors Mommy Tracked signature column, Tales From the Mommy Track. She is a critically acclaimed author who lives in Los Angeles. Her previous adult novels, Notes from the Underbelly and Tales from the Crib were made into a television series. Her latest novel, The Secret Society of the Pink Crystal Ball, is a Young Adult book.
Lela Davidson is the author of Blacklisted from the PTA, and Managing Editor for Parenting Squad. Her writing is featured on the TODAY Show Moms blog, in Chicken Soup for the Soul: New Moms, and in family and parenting magazines throughout the United States and Canada. She lives in Arkansas (yes, THAT Arkansas) with two teenagers, one husband, and 487 tubes of anti-aging creams. She sneaks out of the house on Monday mornings to appear on the Parenting U segment of CBS affiliate KFSM’s morning show, Wake Up With 5News. Lela also writes about marriage, motherhood, and life-after-40 at After the Bubbly.
Follow her on Twitter @leladavidson
Andrea Goto writes The Culinary Coward, a monthly humor column for PaulaDeen.com about her struggle to become a domestic goddess, or more simply, to cook an edible meal. She writes her own Blog, Mom Without Makeup, which discusses the messy art of modern mothering. Andrea lives and writes in Savannah, Georgia, with her 5-year old daughter (who thinks she's a superhero), her husband (who is a superhero) and one geriatric cat.
Stefanie Wilder-Taylor is the author of Sippy Cups Are Not for Chardonnay, Naptime Is the New Happy Hour, and It's Not Me, It's You: Subjective Recollections from a Terminally Optimistic, Chronically Sarcastic and Occasionally Inebriated Woman. She’s appeared numerous times on The Today Show, is a member of the Us Weekly Fashion Police and writes on her blog, Baby On Bored
Amy Weitman is the dedicated and inventive writer behind the fictional ModernMom Chronicles. Amy received a Bachelor of Arts from the University of Southern California and earned a teaching credential from Pepperdine's School of Education. She has been a full-time ModernMom for eleven enlightening years. In addition to writing, Amy enjoys reading and spending time with her family, friends and dog, Freddy. She resides with her two loving children and husband in sunny Santa Monica, Calif.
Meredith O'Brien's Pop Culture & Politics column provides a reality check on how TV shows, movies, politics and the media depict moms. A longtime journalist and mother of three, Meredith formerly taught journalism at the University of Massachusetts, is the author of A Suburban Mom: Notes from the Asylum, writes a parenting/lifestyle blog called the Picket Fence Post and is a pop culture/TV blogger for Notes from the Asylum and CliqueClack TV. Follow Meredith on Twitter: @MeredithOBrien.
Abby Margolis Newman, whose blog, "Un/lucky," can be found at abbymargolisnewman.blogspot.com, has been a freelance writer for almost 20 years, and is now lending her talent to ModernMom. She has written for The New York Times, Parenting, Working Mother, and Scholastic, among many other publications. Her earlier career incarnations include working as a film producer and as a fundraiser for Planned Parenthood and PBS. But in reality, she has spent the vast majority of her time over the last 18 years mothering three boys. She lives in Mill Valley, California. Follow her on Twitter @newmaniacs
