Susan Orlins

Award-winning journalist Susan Orlins began chronicling her worries in 2009 on her blog, Confessions of a Worrywart. She also contributes to Huffington Post. Orlins has published in The New York Times, Newsday, The Pennsylvania Gazette, and The Washington Post Magazine. For several years, she was a contributing editor at Moment Magazine, where she received a Rockower Award for her profile of sociolinguist Deborah Tannen. After adopting an infant in China in 1986, Orlins wrote a letter home that appears in Women's Letters: from the Revolutionary War to the Present. Chicken Soup for the Soul published her essay "Marathon Women" in Like Mother, Like Daughter, Our 101 Best Stories.

Orlins has performed storytelling at The Moth and SpeakeasyDC and performs standup comedy at clubs in Washington and New York. She facilitates writing and storytelling workshops for homeless writers in Washington, including at Street Sense, where she met author Gerald Anderson. Orlins is the mother of three grown daughters and lives with her beagle in Washington, D.C.

Visit her at susanorlins.com.