She Writes Co-Founder, with Kamy Wicoff!

Third person version: Deborah Siegel is the author of Sisterhood, Interrupted: From Radical Women to Grrls Gone Wild (Palgrave), co-editor of the literary anthology Only Child (Random House), founder of the group blog Girl w/Pen and co-founder of She Writes, the largest online community for women who write. A PhD in English and American Literature, she is a Visiting Scholar in Gender and Sexuality Studies at Northwestern University and a Senior Facilitator with The OpEd Project. Her work has appeared in venues including The Washington Post, The Guardian, CNN.com, The Forward, Slate, The Huffington Post, The American Prospect, Ms., More, and Psychology Today, in multiple anthologies, and on her blogs. She has been featured on The Today Show, at TEDx, and in the New York Times. Deborah is working on a series of essays about gender and early childhood. When not writing about her boy/girl twins, she serves as Coach-in-Chief at Girl Meets Voice, where she works with writers, experts, leaders, and some of the nation’s most innovative thinkers, helping those with powerful insights put their best public selves forward in the service of their brightest ideas.

<i>Sisterhood, Interrupted: From Radical Women to Grrls Gone Wild</i> (Palgrave 2007)
<i>Only Child: Writers on the Singular Joys and Solitary Sorrows of Growing Up Solo</i>, coeditor (Harmony/Random House 2007)
Anthologies including:
<i>Click! When We Knew We Were Feminists
When We Were Free to Be: Looking Back at a Children's Classic
The Good Mother Myth: Redefining Motherhood to Fit Reality</i>

Curatorial Committee, Ragdale Foundation
Visiting Scholar, Northwestern University
Senior Facilitator, The OpEd Project
Guest Instructor, StoryStudio Chicago
Member, Brave Girls Alliance
Alumna, Women's Media Center Progressive Women's Voices
Former Board Member, Council on Contemporary Families
Former Fellow, Woodhull Institute for Ethical Leadership

Invisible Institute, Chicago writers groups, Sunday Salon...