Jeanne Marie Laskas

Jeanne Marie Laskas is an American writer and professor.

From 1994 until 2008 she was a regular, syndicated columnist for "The Washington Post Magazine", where her "Significant Others" essays appeared weekly. Many of her feature stories now appear in "GQ", where she is a Correspondent. Formerly a Contributing Editor at "Esquire", her stories have appeared in numerous anthologies, including "Best American Sportswriting". She also is the voice behind "Ask Laskas" in "Readers' Digest" and writes the "My Life as a Mom" column for "Ladies' Home Journal".

A professor in the creative writing program at the University of Pittsburgh, she lives with her husband, Alexander Levy, and two daughters at Sweetwater Farm in Scenery Hill, Pennsylvania.

Born in 1958, she was educated at the University of Pittsburgh, where she earned a MFA.

Books

* "Growing Girls: The Mother of All Adventures", nonfiction (New York: Bantam Dell, 2006).
* "The Exact Same Moon: Fifty Acres and a Family", nonfiction (New York: Bantam Dell, 2003).
* "Fifty Acres and a Poodle: A Story of Love, Livestock, and Finding Myself on a Farm", nonfiction (New York: Bantam Dell, 2000).
* "We Remember: Women Born at the Turn of the Century Tell the Stories of Their Lives in Words and Pictures", (editor), nonfiction (New York: Morrow, 1999).
* "The Balloon Lady and Other People I Know", nonfiction (Pittsburgh: Duquense University Press, 1996).

ources

"Contemporary Authors Online". The Gale Group, 2006. PEN (Permanent Entry Number): 0000162231.