About Us
Caroline Grant is Editor-in-Chief of Literary Mama, where she also writes a monthly column, Mama at the Movies. She co-edited the anthology Mama, PhD: Women Write about Motherhood and Academic Life (Rutgers University Press, 2008), which Bob Drago calls “easily the most important piece of work to date on academics and family issues, full-stop.” She holds a Ph.D. in Comparative Literature from the University of California at Berkeley, and has essays published or forthcoming in Hip Mama, MotherVerse, and A Cup of Comfort for New Mothers (Adams Media). She grew up in suburban New York, eating only the produce grown by her father and grandfathers in their backyards and now, with her two young sons, raises what vegetables she can in their foggy San Francisco garden. She blogs regularly about food and books at Food for Thought.
Lisa Catherine Harper is Adjunct Professor of Writing in the University of San Francisco’s Masters of Fine Arts in Writing program, as well as a freelance writer. Her book, A Double Life: Discovering Motherhood, won the 2010 River Teeth Prize for Literary Nonfiction and will be published by the University of Nebraska Press in April 2011. She holds a B.A. from Princeton University, and an M.A. in Creative Writing and Ph.D. in English from the University of California, Davis. Her nonfiction writing about food and motherhood has been published or is forthcoming in Gastronomica, Literary Mama, Lost, Educating Tastes: Food, Drink, and Conoisseur Culture, as well as academic journals and anthologies. She maintains a website where she blogs about writing and motherhood. She learned to eat at Princeton University after befriending a remarkable chef, but she didn’t learn to cook until the poverty of graduate school made cooking the only recreation she could afford. Since 1992 she’s bought her produce exclusively from local farmers markets, a weekly event she continues with her daughter, Ella, and son, Finn.
Caroline and Lisa met through Literary Mama and embarked on LEARNING TO EAT when their playground conversations about writing and feeding their four children under the age of six made their work on this book as inevitable as dinner.