Izzy
Izzy Dean, founder & publisher of Moms Speak Up, is a work-at-home mother of two who resides, reluctantly, in Florida. She hopes to someday live somewhere more progressive but until then she continues to bide her time by searching locally for intelligent life, buttwiping, carpooling and thinking of ways to get out of cooking dinner for her very patient and understanding family. She also keeps a personal blog, IzzyMom, works to green the world as co-founder and co-editor at Green Mom Finds and designs stuff. Her turn-ons include kingsize beds, room-darkening shades and white noise machines.
Julie
Julie Pippert, editor-in-chief of Moms Speak Up, is a writer, editor, and publisher. She’s spent many years working as a legal, business, technical, and medical writer and editor, but recently turned her attention to a more casual and entertaining style of writing: blogging. She recently published a children’s book about autism, and is actively promoting that book. Julie moved to Houston in 2004 with her husband (a native), two daughters, dog and cat. She enjoys plays, live blues shows, restaurants, movies, traveling, and reading. Julie also writes at her personal blog, Using My Words, and the always interesting MOMocrats.
Amy
Canadian contributor (and non-mom) Amy is a new wife, work-at-home editor, gardener, and web geek/blogger. Her writings can be found at Assertagirl, Playing in the Dirt, Suite101.com and Props and Pans. Together, she and her husband Graham live with their cat Farley in Bowmanville, Ontario, Canada.
Dana
Dana Tuszke began her motherhood career with the birth of her son in 2004. When she isn’t fulfilling toddler demands or watching episodes of Bob the Builder against her will, she enjoys writing about her crazy life at The Dana Files. Dana is also a contributing editor at BlogHer.org, where she writes about politics from a conservative viewpoint.
Kris
Kris Underwood can be found ranting at her blog, Writing In The Mountains, about books and motherhood, as well as holding the position of Writer’s Resource Editor at Mom Writer’s Literary Magazine. She also finds time for occasional rants and raves at
Green Mom Finds and the MotherVerse Blog/Magazine. Some of her poems and essays have appeared in MotherVerse, Literary Mama and MomWritersLitMag.
Lisa
Lisa Frack had never heard of a blog before 2007. And now her husband wishes this were still true, because, of course, she is now married to her laptop, not him. Powered by late-night chocolate chips and a mad passion to convert our Plan A country to her very own Plan B, she blogs at Activistas in Portland, Oregon. The mission is to inform, inspire, and connect busy parents to make change on the issues that matter to their families. Kind of like Moms Speak Up, only for Oregonians. She has more opinions than you can shake a stick at and, the way she sees it, her husband ought to be grateful she blogs or he’d have to hear them all. the. time. She has two excellent kids who are 2 and 5, a nearly full-time job as a federal grants manager for affordable housing and homelessness, and an underutilized Masters in Public Policy that fuels her blogging. And - perhaps more important than all the other stuff - a husband who cooks dinner and hangs out with the kids two full work days a week. Lucky girl.
Paige
Paige La Grone Babcock (aka Ms. Booty Homemaker) is a writer and communitarian engaged in the Apron-string Revolution where peace begins at home. Her return to the pink collar world after a year tending hearth and raising baby is as public Joy Warrior and work-at-home-mama. Outreach coordinator and community organizer for the exuberant movement Mothers Acting Up, Paige, who also answers to “Mommy,” mixes it up with activism, art and domestic anarchy. She blogs at Ms. Booty Homemaker Explains It All To You, Mothers Acting Up, Nashville Mothers Acting Up and The Mamamade Blog. Paige really needs more sleep. She is a (slightly lapsed) voracious reader, messy gardener and a joyful cook / chowhound. She lives in a cozy urban cottage in East Nashville with her Beloved Mister, their curly headed toddler Ziggy, and rescue cats and dog. She dreams of raising chickens in the country.
Sarah
Sarah possesses two MA degrees (Educational Technology and Theology) and has taught all ages from kindergarten to graduate students. Currently a stay at home mom to a toddler and a new baby, she hopes to return to teaching full time in a few years. Sarah has been happily married for over five years to a man she met on the Internet. You can read more from Sarah at her personal blog, Blogversary.
Victoria
Victoria Mason is a freelance writer and creator of the popular The Mummy Chronicles, as well as Mummy’s Product Reviews, and Flaming Tulle. Her experience and writing skills can be seen on such sites as Parent Bloggers Network, Mother’s Click, The Hot Mom’s Club, DC Metro Moms, Bags with Style, and Maya’s Mom just to name a few. When she isn’t writing she can be found running after her toddler, baking herself into a Bree Van de Kamp frenzy, or simply resisting the urge to smoke. She resides in her favorite city in the world, Washington, DC.
Kathryn
Kathryn earned her MFA in Creative Writing while simultaneously growing a human in her uterus for the first time. That whole experience sort of derailed her plans to become a star in the very lucrative profession of poetry writing, but she has since reconciled this dream with her current one…to raise two boys in a left-leaning, feminist household, while writing satirical and absurd poetry on the side. Currently she teaches English part-time at a community college and lives in a suburb of Los Angeles, California with her husband, a musician and RSP teacher, and their two little monkey boys. She blogs at Progressive Family Values.
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