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Aileen Weintraub
Aileen Weintraub is an award-winning author, journalist, and editor whose latest book Knocked Down: A High-Risk Memoir is about a Brooklyn girl who moves to the country, has a whirlwind romance, and finds herself living in a rickety farmhouse, knocked up, and faced with five months of bed rest due to unusually large fibroids. The Erma Bombeck Workshop named Aileen Humor Writer of the Month for Knocked Down and Publishers Weekly says, “…there’s beauty on every page.”
Aileen is also the author of the middle-grade social justice book WE GOT GAME! 35 Female Athletes Who Changed the World, which was honored as A Mighty Girl’s Best Book of the Year. Her best-selling Never Too Young: 50 Unstoppable Kids Who Made a Difference won a Parents’ Choice Award. Her work has been featured in The Washington Post, HuffPost, Parents, NBC, AARP, Glamour, and other publications. You can find out more about her at aileenweintraub.com or follow her on Twitter @aileenweintraub.