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Ericka Lutz's award-winning
short stories and personal essays have appeared in books, anthologies, and
journals, and her articles, book reviews and advice columns have appeared
nationally in magazines, newspapers, and on the Web. She is the author of
seven non-fiction books including On the Go with
Baby: A Stress-Free Guide to Getting Across Town or Around The World, The
Complete Idiot's Guide to Stepparenting, The Complete Idiot's Guide
to a Well-Behaved Child, as well as The Complete Idiot's Guide to a
Looking Great for Teens (translated into Polish) and The Complete
Idiot's Guide to Friendship for Teens (translated into Portuguese). She was
a founding editor and currently writes a popular monthly column, "Red Diaper Dharma,"
at the online literary magazine Literary
Mama. Ericka
is a two-time recipient of a fiction fellowship at the Virginia Center for
Creative Arts. She has been interviewed on over 40 radio
shows including "The Parent's Journal" on NPR and has been a
featured guest on KRON-TV and KGO (ABC) in San Francisco. She and her
daughter Annie were featured on the American Public Media show, "The
Story." Ericka
loves travel (she's adventured in two dozen countries on three continents),
gardening, and hiking in the woods with her dogs Mollie and Lola. A woman of
sporadic but intense enthusiasms, Ericka dabbles shallowly in yoga, trance
dance, ice skating, meditation, sculpture, and home repair. The child of a bohemian San Francisco family, and a
fourth-generation Red Diaper Baby, Ericka's early background was in the theater. She
performed in the SF Bay Area, New York and Tokyo, and studied at the A.C.T Young
Conservatory, the Lee Strasberg Institute, and the Center for Experimental
and Interdisciplinary Art at San Francisco State University. Recently she has
performed solo at the Jean Shelton Theater under the direction of W. Kamau
Bell, and was featured in the San Francisco Chronicle for her work at
SoloHouse. Ericka
teaches fiction writing and public
speaking for U.C. Berkeley Extension, and is the Writing Consultant for the Evening & Weekend MBA program at
U.C. Berkeley. Since 1992, she's provided private
coaching on writing and writing process as well as editorial services to
writers and organizations. All
this, and she still writes, too. Ericka
has been married since 1989 to communication expert and writer, Bill
Sonnenschein. They have one amazing fifteen-year-old daughter, Annie, who is counting
the moments until she can get her Driver's License. |
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