photo credit Birdy Newman

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TL; DR Bio
​Catherine Newman is the internationally bestselling author of the novels Sandwich and Wreck, which were both instant New York Times bestsellers, as well as the novel We All Want Impossible Things, the memoirs Catastrophic Happiness and Waiting for Birdy, the middle-grade novel One Mixed-Up Night, the kids’ craft book Stitch Camp, and the New York Times best-selling how-to books for kids How to Be a Person and What Can I Say? Her books have been translated into twenty languages. She has been a regular contributor to the New York Times, Real Simple, O, The Oprah Magazine, Cup of Jo, and many other publications. She writes the Crone Sandwich newsletter on Substack and lives in Amherst, Massachusetts.

  
The Ramblier Version
Hi! I should probably tell you about myself as a writer, even if you were here to find out some other kind of thing! I write (wrote?) the cooking and lifestyle blog Ben & Birdy. I'm not sure why I wrote "lifestyle." Maybe I mean the kind of lifestyle where you sew your hand to a maple leaf garland while drinking pinot noir. Now I write the Substack newsletter Crone Sandwich.
    I have written the grown-up parenting memoirs Catastrophic Happiness (Little, Brown) and Waiting for Birdy (Penguin). I have also written the middle-grade novel One Mixed-Up Night (Random House), Stitch Camp, which is a kids' craft book I co-wrote with my friend Nicole, and the award-winning bestselling skill-building books for kids How to Be a Person and What Can I Say? (both from Storey). I've written 3 adult novels: We All Want Impossible Things, Sandwich, and Wreck.
     I have also written about kids, parents, teenagers, food, cooking, love, loss, gender, eating, death, sex, politics, books, babies, snakes, foraging, relationships, crafts, holidays, travel, and fortune telling for lots of magazines, newspapers, and online publications, including the New York Times, O the Oprah Magazine, The Boston Globe, Romper, Self, The Huffington Post, FamilyFun, Parents, and Full Grown People. I am a regular contributor to the Cup of Jo website.
     I was the etiquette columnist at Real Simple for ten years, even though yes, I swear a lot and don't know what an oyster fork is. For 10 years I edited the James-Beard-Award-winning nonprofit kids' cooking magazine ChopChop.
     My work has been in lots of books and anthologies, including On Being 40, the fabulous Unbored series, The Bitch in the House, Oprah's Little Book of Happiness, and the Full Grown People collections.
     I've also done plenty of consulting, public radio commentaries, readings, talks, workshops, and TV appearances. 
     Two random things: I have a PhD, and I'm the Academic Department Coordinator of Creative Writing at Amherst College.