About the Author
Sarah
Klein Masterson is a writer in Old Town Alexandria, Virginia, across the
Potomac River from downtown Washington, D.C. Her book, DC BABY: A Handbook
for Parenting In (& Around) the Capitol City, was published in
2005 under the auspices of Whipsmart Press, which she co-founded with her
husband, Noah, a web marketing manager in the financial sector.
The book was inspired by the Mastersons' relocation—with their then
infant daughter, Ava Louise—from Texas to Washington in the spring
of 2005, when Noah accepted his current position with Calvert
Funds.
Sarah is a proud alum of the University
of Texas at Austin, earned her master's degree from Texas
State University, San Marcos, and did doctoral work in the late '90s
at the University of Maryland, College Park.
She has taught writing and rhetoric at University
of Maryland, College Park and Texas Lutheran
University, and has worked in journalism, trade publishing, and nonprofit
communications since 1989 (when she started her first newspaper reporting
job the morning after high school graduation!).
Sarah's professional interests have always centered around women's issues.
She currently volunteers as the Washington, DC coordinator for Postpartum
Support International (PSI) and co-facilitates a peer support group
for pregnant women and new mothers in Northwest DC. Sarah recently founded
a not-for-profit advocacy organization, The
Perinatal Project, and is a part-time communications consultant to prominent
nonprofits including the National Healthy
Mothers, Healthy Babies Coalition and Partnership
for Clear Health Communication. She volunteers at her daughter's co-op
preschool and, in her "spare time," enjoys writing about motherhood
at Don't Drink the Bathwater.
DC BABY's press run SOLD OUT by June 2006, so
the book is currently out of print. However, it IS available for purchase
as an e-book at www.dc-baby.com/store.php.
An updated second edition of the e-book is in the works for 2007. And Sarah
still publishes two free resources for pregnant women and the parents of
young children: the DC BABY Blog and
a monthly e-newsletter. To subscribe, click here.
