About Deborah Siegel

Deborah Siegel, PhD published her first book about the death of her one-eyed guinea pig at a young age. She then went home and taught her imaginary friend Sally how to make a book. Her passion for writing—and for teaching others the tools of the trade—never ceased.

Today, Deborah is an expert on gender, politics, and the unfinished business of feminism across generations. She is the author of Sisterhood, Interrupted: From Radical Women to Grrls Gone Wild, co-editor of the literary anthology Only Child: Writers on the Singular Joys and Solitary Sorrows of Growing Up Solo, founder of the blog Girl w/Pen, and co-founder of the webjournal The Scholar & Feminist Online. She is currently VP of Education at SheWrites.

Deborah is currently working on a book about how feminism has—and hasn’t—changed men. Her writings on women, feminism, contemporary families, sex, and popular culture have appeared in venues including The Washington Post, The Guardian, Slate’s The Big Money, Recessionwire (where she penned the Love in the Time of Layoff column), The Huffington Post, The American Prospect, More, Psychology Today, and The Mothers Movement Online.

A graduate of the first class of the Women’s Media Center’s Progressive Women’s Voices program, she is a frequent media commentator and lectures at campuses and conferences nationwide. She has been featured on tv and radio including The Today Show, CBS This Morning, WNBC, WCBS, New York 1, Good Morning America Radio, Pacifica Radio, The Wendy Williams Experience, The Judith Warner Show, and The Joey Reynolds Show.

Before helping launch SheWrites.com in June 2009, Deborah led myriad workshops and consulted with individuals, organizations, and companies seeking to expand their public platform through books, new media, and blogs. Organizational clients have included the Women’s Funding Network, the White House Project, the National Council for Research on Women, the National Women’s Studies Association, Catalyst, the Women’s Media Center, the Maynard Institute for Journalism Education, the Family Violence Prevention Fund, and the Woodhull Institute for Ethical Leadership, where she is currently a Fellow. Deborah serves on the board of the Council on Contemporary Families.

Deborah received her doctorate in English and American Literature from the University of Wisconsin-Madison in 2001. Raised in Chicago, she has made New York City her home.