Because I was feeling nostalgic and compulsive I decided to compile a list of the all the Edgy Moms from 2007 through 2013 (That show will be on Thursday, May 9 at 8PM at The Old Stone House).
EDGY MOMS 2007
Susan Gregory Thomas, author of Buy, Buy Baby: How Consumer Culture Manipulates Mothers and Harms Children
Louise Crawford, aka Smartmom
Amy Sohn, author of Prospect Park West and Motherland
Sophia Romero author of Always Hiding
Mary Warren, blogger
Jennifer Block, author of Pushed
Judy Lichtblau, writer of short stories
Alison Lowenstein, author of City Baby Brooklyn
Michele Somerville Madigan, author of Wisegal and Black Irish
Tom Rayfiel, author of Parallel Play and Eve in the City
EDGY MOMS 2008
Christen Clifford, playwright of Babylove
Amy Benfer, editor and staff writer at Salon, Paper and Metro
Michele Madigan Somerville, author of Wisegal and Black Irish
Louise Crawford, Smartmom
Amy Sohn, author of Prospect Park West and Motherland
Sophia Romero, author of Always Hiding, The Shiksa from Manila
Louise Sloan
Lenore Skenazy, author of Free Range Kids
EDGY MOMS 2009
Jill Eisenstadt, author of From Rockaway and Kiss Out
Beth Harpaz, author of 13 is the New 18 and other things my children taught me while I was having a nervous breakdown being their mother
Mary Morris, author of Revenge, Vanishing Animals, The Bus of Dreams, and The Lifeguard Stories
Jenny Offill, author of Last Things and editor of Money Changes Everything
Sophia Romero, blogger, The Shiksa from Manila and author of Always Hiding
Amy Sohn, author of Prospect Park West and Motherland
Michele Madigan Somerville, author of WISEGAL and Black Irish
Diana Son, playwright of Stop Kiss and Satellites
EDGY MOMS 2010
Sophia Romero, author of Always Hiding, The Shiksa from Manila
Michele Madigan Somerville, author of WISEGAL and Black Irish
Wendy Ponte, journalist
Marian Fontana, author of Widow’s Walk
Yona Zeldis McDonough, author of A Wedding in Great Neck
Martha Southgate, author of The Taste of Salt, Third Girl from the Left
Allison Pennell, blogger
Jill Eisenstadt, author of From Rockaway
Rosemary Moore, playwright of Side Street, The Pain of Pink Evenings
EDGY MOMS 2011
Paola Corso, author of Catina’s Haircut
Jennifer Hayden author and illustrator of Underwire
Nancy McDermott, blogger, The Brown House
Judy Anteil, blogger,
Barbara Ensor, author of Cinderella (as if you didn’t already know the story) and Thumbalina
EDGY MOMS 2012
Elizabeth Laura Nelson, blogger, Midnight Cowgirls
Hoong Yee Lee Krakauer, children’s book author
Nicole Callihan, poet
Karen Ritter, novelist and essayist
Jezra Kaye, author of Crooked Heart
Andrea Bernstein, WNYC radio journalist
EDGY MOMS 2013
Lori Toppel, memoirist, Still Here Thinking of You
Vicki Addesso, memoirist, Still Here Thinking of You
Susan Hodara, memoirist, Still Here Thinking of You
Chris Nelson, playwright
Nicole Callihan, poet
Sophia Romero, author of Always Hiding, The Shiksa from Manila
Cathy Gigante Brown, author of The El
Karen Ritter, novelist and essayist