Hi, I'm Betsy. You can call me Betsy.
photo credit: Mark Ostow
I've been writing since I was seven years old:
"Raccoons are like robbers with masks on their face
They sneak and they prowl in the night."
Recently, I have had the honor and joy of co-authoring Finding the Funny: My Mad Ride Thru Late-Night Comedy with Madeleine Smithberg, one of the most successful woman in late-night comedy you've likely never heard of. We hope to change that with our book, coming out on March 2, 20207.
My own memoir-cum-polemic, The Dinner Diaries: Raising Whole Wheat Kids in a White Bread World (Algonquin 2008), received a starred review from Publishers Weekly, was Family Circle's Book Pick of the Month, the Progressive Book Club's Staff Pick, and was featured in Everyday with Rachael Ray, Boston Globe and The Washington Post.
I guess this is where you're supposed to get braggy, so here we go: I've been called “hilarious,” “talented,” “smart,” “edgy,” “fun,” and “one of my favorite Boston writers,” not to mention, “laugh-out-loud funny” by The Washington Post, The Boston Globe and NPR. My writing includes food features, profiles, health articles, restaurant reviews, travel pieces, essays, and lifestyle stories for NPR, Wondertime, Cookie, Entrepreneur, Natural Health, Epicurious.com, The Boston Globe, Boston magazine, and online city guides Sidewalk and CitySearch.
I graduated with honors from Brown in 1988 and received my Master's from Tufts' Fletcher School in 2014. I live near Boston and love working from my couch in my jammies, unless someone asks me to do something really fun outside of the house. Then I put pants on.