Elizabeth Isadora Gold's nonfiction book, The Mommy Group: Freaking Out, F**king Up, and the First Two Years, which will be published by Atria Books in 2016. When she was pregnant with her daughter, Clara, she joined a "pregnancy support group" in her Brooklyn neighborhood. Strangers when they met, they were soon a community -- one that helped them through the greatest and most difficult change of their lives. As time passed and their babies grew into people, the mommies became integrated, whole, human beings with beautiful, powerful families -- and each other.
Elizabeth's writing on motherhood, books, music, and women’s liberation has appeared in The New York Times, The Believer, Tin House, the Rumpus, and Time Out New York, as well as many other publications. Her profile of soul impresario Kenny Gamble appeared in the Philadelphia Reader, a collection of Philadelphia Magazine’s best profiles.
In Spring 2012, Elizabeth’s piece about her postpartum anxiety, “Meltdown in Motherland,” appeared on the New York Times’ Opinionator blog. 222 comments later, she realized the lack of and need for honest talk about postpartum mental health issues.
Elizabeth lives in Brooklyn with her husband and young daughter.
