Contributors

The Motherhood Muse Contributors !

Mary Jo Campbell - Column: Into the Wild

 Mary Jo Campbell is married to her best friend and together they are raising two bright, rowdy, and curious little boys, without too many trips to the ER.
Mary Jo is founder of the first Young Writers' Group in Downers Grove, IL and inspires young adults to find their creative voice through free monthly workshops and tuition-based classes several times a year.  This former student of Columbia College Chicago, received First Place in the 100 Words or Fewer Fiction Writing Contest with work also appearing in Underwired, coloredchalk.com, WritingKid, MOMSense Magazine and more.  She hopes to grow as a writer as she helps others grow, always have a hand around a good cup of coffee and be in the presence of loved ones. Follow her musings on writerinspired, writelikeCRAZY and @mjcwriter on Twitter.

Loren Christie - Editor Assistant
 

Loren Christie is a wife and the stay-at-home mother of three young children living on Long Island in New York. She loves to write and maintains a blog called Dude, Where Am I?  She is a staff member of The Motherhood Muse. Loren has served as a columnist and Writer's Resource Editor for Mom Writer's Literary Magazine. She has experience as a freelance journalist for a local newspaper, The Long Island Advance, and has worked as a high school English teacher. 

Alegra Clarke - Column: Tumbling into Grace

Eros - Alegra Clarke is wife to a man that she loves so much she once said to him, "There needs to be more of you in the world!" He was happy to oblige. Six years later they have a boy and a girl, with a third (and final) boy due in December. A California native, Alegra is now living in New Zealand raising her family. A passionate surfer, writer, and masters student at the University of Waikato, Alegra won the Writer's Digest 76th Annual Writing Competition Grand Prize for her memoir "Salamander Prayer." Her writing has since appeared in the Waikato Times, Writer's Digest 4th Annual Poetry Awards, Flash Fiction 40, and the literary journal Bitter Oleander. She is working on her first novel Razing Eden under the mentorship of her literary agent. Alegra contributes to Maria Schneider’s website resource for writers: http://editorunleashed.com  and can be found blogging about life, writing, and everything in between at: http://alegra22.wordpress.comClarke

She can be found on Twitter under @alegraclarke.

Emily Curry - Column: Snips & Snails

Emily Curry is a freelance writer and editor living in the Denver, Colorado area. In her former 9-to-5 life, Emily worked as a book editor. Upon the arrival of her first child, Emily transitioned into full-time motherhood and has just recently entered the blogosphere and world of online writing to celebrate and chronicle her experiences sharing her days with her two little boys. Her lifelong love of creative writing takes many forms, including articles, poetry and children’s literature.

Stephanie Dethlefs is a freelance writer in Bellingham, WA, who writes with one hand while parenting her two small children with the other. Her articles and essays have been published in a number of parenting publications as well as Literary Mama, Underwired, HybridMom.com, and Entertainment News NW. She is also the founder of the Young Writers Studio and can be found blogging at The Beautification Project. 

Jodi Hiland - Column: Mud-luscious Mama

Catherine Lang - Column: In a Nutshell

Catherine Lang is a mother of two, Army wife of one.  She lives the college student life vicariously through her husband while holding down their tiny apartment she calls "The Nutshell;" and the same time plays mommy to her little guys, the oldest of which has special needs.  She likes to look at the humor in motherhood and laugh when things get too hard to bare!  You can usually find Catherine laughing at herself on her blog:  "4 Nuts in a Nutshell."  She is in the process of writing her first novel.

Andrea Lani - Feature: Mother Nature's Muse

Andrea Lani works for an environmental agency, but prefers exploring the woods with her three sons in the backyard of the off-grid house her husband built.  When she gets a moment to herself she writes.  Andrea's work has been published at www.literarymama.com and www.voxpoetica.com. She produces the print zine GEMINI and blogs at Remains of the Day.  

Nature Lovin' Super Mama - Column: Mama Nature's Front Porch

Nature Lovin' Super Mama has a fantastic pen name! She is the wife and mother to the two most free spirited individuals she knows. In the middle of balancing college, family, and friends, Nature Lovin' Super Mama finds writing to be her outlet, her "special" time. She is energized by nature and all its surroundings, which is why she spends as much time outside as possible. Nature has much to teach us. If we sit down and listen from time to time, our questions to life just might get answered. Besides writing for The Motherhood Muse, she posts about her adventures in this unpredictable world on her blog Nature Lovin' Super Mama.  

Andrea Halpin-White - Column: Life in My Backyard

Andrea Halpin-White is a wife, mom of two and a freelance writer, editor and aspiring novelist.  She calls the suburbs of Philadelphia home and enjoys reading, writing and cycling. She writes about motherhood on Blogging Mama .

Kimberly Zook - Founder & Editor-in-Chief

  Kimberly Zook is lucky to be married to her best friend who understands her eclectic passions in life: literature, art, nature, science, teaching and children. Together they have two amazing daughters who inspired Kimberly to create The Motherhood Muse. As a stay-at-home mom she jumps into her writing chair before dawn and after "lights out" to let her muse spin its tales on motherhood and nature. Her writing has been published in various sources: WOW! Women on Writing, Mom Writer's Literary Magazine, Skipping Stones and more. She is currently working on her first young adult novel based on her experiences of living in a tropical rainforest for a few years by herself. She blogs about motherood and writing at Zook Book Nook (as well as The Motherhood Muse blog!).