Frances Lefkowitz

Frances Lefkowitz (FrancesLefkowitz.net) is the author of To Have Not, a SheKnows.com Best Memoir of 2010. The former Senior Editor of Body & Soul magazine, and Book Reviewer for Good Housekeeping, she has also written articles, essays, and blogs for Health, Martha Stewart’s Whole Living, National Geographic’s Green Guide, Poets & Writers, and more. Her fiction appears in Tin House, Glimmer Train, Fiction, and other journals, and she’s received two Special Mentions for the Pushcart Prize and one for Best American Essays. At home in Petaluma, CA, she’s writing a new memoir, about learning to surf at age 36. Among other awards, Frances has received a recent Cal Humanities grant for her Community Memoir Project, which brings free memoir-writing classes to public libraries. Frances also teaches workshops, coaches writers, and blogs about writing, publishing, and footwear at PaperInMyShoe.com.