Sharon Lerner is a journalist who has covered a wide range of issues of concern to women for

more than a decade. She has worked as a reporter for The Village Voice, where she wrote two

regular columns and covered women's issues and health. Her written work has appeared in

The New York Times, The New York Times Magazine, The American Prospect, The Nation, Salon.com, DoubleX (Slate.com), and Ms. among other publications. She is the recipient of the

2005 Front Page Award for News Coverage, the 2005 Jane Cunningham Croly/GFWC Print

Journalism Award for excellence in covering issues of concern to women; a special award from

the Women and Politics Institute for coverage of women's issues post-9/11; the Ray Brunner

Science Writing Award from the American Public Health Association; and a National Headliner

Award for her radio feature reporting. Her most recent book is "The War on Moms: On Life in a

Family-Unfriendly Nation," which came out this spring.