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author bio Liz Nadybal is a recent graduate of Rutgers University. Having spent the summer watching countless hours of daytime television, she has come to realize that she needs to be a fat camp counselor and make a movie starring Christopher Walken. She lives in New Jersey and loves to play Scrabble.

author bio David Netto founded NettoCollection in 2002 and CUB, a modestly priced line based on the famously cool adult furniture of Donald Judd, in 2006. He serves on the Professional Advisory Board of the Child Development Institute in Bronxville, and is a contributing editor to CHILD magazine. He lives in New York and Los Angeles with his wife Elizabeth and two daughters.

author bio Rebecca Odes and Ceridwen Morris are co-authors of From the Hips: A Comprehensive, Open-Minded, Uncensored, Totally Honest Guide to Pregnancy, Birth, and Becoming a Parent. Order it here!

author bio Katherine Ozment is a freelance writer working on a collection of essays about motherhood. Her work has been published in The New York Times, National Geographic and Salon.

author bio Amelia McDonell-Parry is a freelance writer in New York. Her work has appeared in Teen Vogue, Everyday With Rachael Ray, NYMag.com, Nylon, RollingStone.com, and Marie Claire UK. Her biological clock has been ticking practically since puberty, but she's still debating whether it's cruel to give her future children a triple hyphenate surname. In the meantime, her dog, Lucca, calls her Mommy.

author bio Babble editorial assistant April Peveteaux is a writer and performer. Her work can be seen in RADAR and The Life and Times of the Mummy. She lives in Brooklyn with her husband, daughter and cocker spaniel.

author bio Sabrina Paradis is a freelance writer who lives with her husband and two children. She splits her time between New York City and Boston.

author bio Nicole Marie Polec is a freelance photographer. Born in Romeo, Michigan, she was educated at the New England School of Photography. She blogs at xoxonico.com

author bio Jean Railla, the author of the DIY manifesto Get Crafty, lives in Greenwich Village with her husband and their two rapscallion boys. Her odes to food and drink can be read at mealbymeal.blogspot.com.

author bio Shelly Rivoli is the author of Travels with Baby: The Ultimate Guide for Planning Trips with Babies, Toddlers, and Preschool-Age Children. She’s changed diapers in Thailand, Tunisia, Paris, Pompeii, Yosemite, and the Yucatan, and hangs her hats (as mother and writer) in the Bay Area.

author bio Barbara Rushkoff writes the acclaimed jew zine Plotz. Her writing has also appeared in Index, Rolling Stone, People and Venus.

author bio Joel Schwartzberg's work has appeared in The New York Times Magazine, New Jersey Monthly and The New Jersey Star Ledger, for which he is a regular blogger. Schwartzberg is also a senior producer for the PBS television news magazine NOW. He can be reached through his portfolio at www.jesttokill.com.

author bio Amy Spurway is a freelance writer, aspiring novelist and the former editor of a small magazine for young mothers. She lives with her husband and twin daughters in Toronto.

author bio Kate Tuttle is a writer and editor raising two children just outside Boston.

author bio For three years, Kris Vagner covered arts and culture (and accidentally became an award-winning sportswriter) for magazines and alt-newsweeklies in Reno. She recently resettled in San Francisco, where she and her almost-four-year-old son can't get enough of those scary-steep cable-car rides.

author bio Holly Vitale used to live in Portland, Oregon, but now lives in Tasmania, Australia, with her husband and nine-month-old son. Holly has had nine months worth of writer's block for anything not related to babies.

author bio Rebecca Walker's books include the international bestseller Black, White, and Jewish: Autobiography of a Shifting Self; and Baby Love: Choosing Motherhood After a Lifetime of Ambivalence. She lives in Hawaii.

author bio Amanda Eyre Ward's new novel, Forgive Me, will be published in paperback in January 2008. She lives in Austin, Texas, with her family. Visit amandaward.com.

author bio Babble editor Gwynne Watkins is a Brooklyn-based writer whose work has appeared both online and in print. She is a consulting editor at Nerve.com, as well as a playwright and a lyricist. Her most recent show, the children's musical Space Pirates, premiered in May.

author bio Erin Cressida Wilson wrote the screenplays for Secretary and Fur, An Imaginary Portrait of Diane Arbus. Her twenty plays have been produced regionally, Off Broadway and abroad. She co-authored The Erotica Project with Lillian Ann Slugocki and is currently writing a remake of The Hunger.

author bio L.J. Williamson is a writer from Los Angeles. Her complaints have been printed in The Los Angeles Times, Salon.com, and Utne, to name a few. She lives with her husband, Monkey Man, and their two children, Fifi Bird and Sugar Guy. Her website is ljwilliamson.com.

author bio Sasha Brown-Worsham's writing has been published by The Boston Globe, The Christian Science Monitor, and Technology Review. She lives in Boston, where she keeps a blog on thefamilygroove.com and chases her daughter around the house while waiting for their newest family member to arrive.

author bio Rebecca Woolf writes the parenting blogs Girl's Gone Child and Babble's own Straight From the Bottle. Her memoir, Rockabye: From Wild to Child (Seal Press) hits bookstores in March 2008. She lives in Los Angeles with her son, husband and dogs.



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