I write for kids. I write for cooks. I have 50 published books out. 11 of them won awards.I had an adventurous, feisty, interesting marriage for 23 largely happy years. My husband, Ned, went out bi...view moreI write for kids. I write for cooks. I have 50 published books out. 11 of them won awards.I had an adventurous, feisty, interesting marriage for 23 largely happy years. My husband, Ned, went out bicycling one day, got hit by a car and died.I garden. I blog. I cook. I live in Vermont. Used to live in Arkansas. Before that, New York.These days I hang out a lot with my very old mother, Charlotte Zolotow, a famous children’s book writer. Also her cat, Tumbleweed. My late father, Maurice Zolotow, was Marilyn Monroe’s first biographer.Yes, it’s my real name.I think anxiety, procrastination and discomfort are powerful creative forces in disguise. I think that apparent obstacles are building materials. That writing practices and principles spill over, cornucopia-like: from writing to life.I teach writing. I teach people how to befriend uncertainty and fear through writing and thereby reclaim their creative powers of self-love and reinvention. And become better writers.I think we’re all part of the narrative life tells itself about itself. No wonder we all have something to say.view less