I'm an author, a columnist for BUST magazine, and a children’s book editor.

My 2005 memoir, I’m Not the New Me, was featured in publications such as Time Magazine, USA Today, Elle, and the San Francisco Chronicle. (See here for more reviews.) It was based in part on my weblog Pound, which I first began in 2000 to write about body image issues (and to make fun of aerobics instructors), and has been featured in Glamour, Bitch and other magazines.  My online collection of vintage Weight Watcher recipe cards and commentary was published in the 2006 humor book The Amazing Mackerel Pudding Plan.

My essays have appeared in the The New York Times Magazine, The Chicago Sun-Times, and in a number of anthologies, including Love Is A Four-Letter Word (Plume), Feed Me (Ballantine) and Sleepaway: Writings on Summer Camp (Riverhead). In addition, I've contributed to the radio show Writers Block Party on NPR station WBEZ in Chicago, and have spoken at conferences for BlogHer and American Society of Journalists and Authors, and for literary events at The Chicago Tribune Printers Row Book Festival and StoryStudio Chicago.