Rita Arens

Rita Arens

url http://www.goodreads.com/ritaarens
gender female
place of birth somewhere in Iowa, The United States
website http://www.ritaarens.com
genre Parenting & Families, Nonfiction, Literature & Fiction
influences Anne Lamott, Joseph Heller, John Irving, Anne Tyler, Amy Tan, Tom Robbins, Ray Bradbury, Maxine Kumin, Dave Eggers

about this author

I edited Sleep Is for the Weak (Chicago Review Press, 2008), which won a 2009 National Parenting Publications Award. I'm at work on a YA novel.

I now author my blogs Surrender, Dorothy and Surrender, Dorothy: Reviews and am the senior editor for BlogHer.com. I'm on the board for the Writers Place in Kansas City.

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