click here<\/a>.<\/p>\nI’m thrilled to be teaming up with my fellow She Writer Christina on this one. In addition to being one of the most prolific writers I know, she’s a gifted teacher. Plus, two people have now said we look alike.\u00a0 Which makes me smile.\u00a0 A lot.\u00a0 Come meet us in person and see if you agree \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n
Many GWP readers know Christina from the anthology of personal essays she coedited called About Face: Women Write About What They See When They Look in the Mirror<\/em> and the book she co-authored, with her mother, on feminist mothers and daughters called The Conversation Begins<\/em>.\u00a0 She also commissioned and edited two widely praised collections of original essays on the first year of parenthood and raising young children, Child of Mine<\/em> and Room to Grow<\/em>.\u00a0 Her essays, articles, and reviews have appeared in The New York Times Book Review, The Yale Review, Southern Living, Ms., Parents<\/em>, and Family Life<\/em>, among other places.\u00a0 In addition to writing nonfiction, she’s also a novelist (Bird in Hand<\/em>, The Way Life Should Be<\/em>, Desire Lines<\/em> and Sweet Water<\/em>), Writer-in-Residence at Fordham University, and an on-staff editor and writing coach at the social networking site SheWrites.com.<\/p>\nOur first retreat is taking place in Brooklyn.\u00a0 But Christina and I are also available to take it on the road.\u00a0 To discuss the possibility of bringing this retreat to a locale near YOU, please email me at deborah[at]shewrites[dot]com.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Since becoming a first-time mother 17 months ago over here, I’ve decided that PAMPERING OTHER MOTHERS can be a feminist act.\u00a0 In that spirit, I share news of a new offering of mine: Rejuvenate Your Writing Life! A Restorative Mini-Retreat for Writing Mamas With authors Deborah Siegel and Christina Baker Kline Saturday, May 21, 9:30am […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1902,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[3109,21941],"class_list":["post-2497","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-motherhood","tag-writing-life"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/girlwpen\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2497","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/girlwpen\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/girlwpen\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/girlwpen\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1902"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/girlwpen\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2497"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/girlwpen\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2497\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/girlwpen\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2497"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/girlwpen\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2497"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/girlwpen\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2497"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
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