Lylah M. Alphonse

Lylah M. Alphonse (born 1972, Princeton, New Jersey) is an American journalist. Her mother is a Parsi from India and her father is from Haiti. The eldest of three children, Lylah Alphonse attended Princeton Day School.

A graduate of the S.I. Newhouse School of Public Communications at Syracuse University, she was recently inducted to the Newhouse School's alumni hall of fame.

She works as an editor at "The Boston Globe" newspaper in Boston, Massachusetts where she is currently a member of the newspaper's Sunday Magazine staff. [ [http://www.boston.com/news/globe/magazine/about/ About the Globe Magazine - The Boston Globe ] ] She also writes frequently for their Travel [ [http://www.boston.com/travel/blog Globe-trotting - The Boston Globe ] ] , Food [ [http://www.boston.com/ae/food Food - Boston.com ] ] , and Living/Arts [ [http://www.boston.com/ae/books/ Books - The Boston Globe Book Reviews and Best Sellers Lists - Boston.com ] ] sections. She is consulting editor for the FEZANA Journal, [ [http://www.fezana.org/pubs.fez.htm#editors FEZANA - Fezana Journal ] ] Managing Editor at Work It, Mom!, [ [http://www.workitmom.com Working Mothers | Working Moms Community - Work It, Mom! ] ] and the author of "Triumph Over Discrimination: The Life Story of Farhang Mehr" (ISBN 0-9709937-0-6). [ [http://www.amazon.com/dp/0970993706 Amazon.com: Triumph Over Discrimination: The Life Story of Farhang Mehr: Lylah M. Alphonse: Books ] ]

She writes for the Work + Money section of Shine [ [http://shine.yahoo.com Shine: Fashion and Beauty, Healthy Living, Parenting, Sex and Love, Career and Money, Food, and more - Shine on Yahoo! ] ] on Yahoo.com, blogs about juggling career and parenthood at The 36-Hour Day [ [http://www.workitmom.com/bloggers/36hourday Balancing Work and Family Blog - The 36-Hour Day - Work It, Mom! ] ] , and has contributed articles to "Our Times, 5th edition" (Bedford Books, 1998) and "Interactions: A Thematic Reader" (Houghton Mifflin Co., 1999), a textbook. A collection of her recent work is online at Write. Edit. Repeat. [ [http://WriteEditRepeat.blogspot.com Write. Edit. Repeat ] ]

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