Leslie Morgan Steiner is the author of Crazy Love, a New York Times bestseller. Her memoir about surviving domestic violence in her first marriage describes how, at 22 and a recent Harvard graduate working at Seventeen Magazine in New York City, she met a charming, handsome Ivy League graduate on the subway. Steiner takes readers on the baffling, terrifying journey of true love turned devastating – how she endured four years of attacks, eventually escaping and rebuilding her career and finding a happy family life with her second husband.
Steiner is also the editor of the critically-acclaimed anthology Mommy Wars: Stay-at-Home and Career Moms Face Off on Their Choices, Their Lives, Their Families (Random House) a frank, surprising, and utterly refreshing look at American motherhood. As a successful businesswoman at the Washington PostJohnson & Johnson and Leo Burnett – and mother of three – Leslie Morgan Steiner has lived every side of the so-called “mommy wars” women face balancing work and family.
From 2006-2008 she wrote over 500 columns for the Washington Post’s popular on-line work/family column, On Balance. She currently writes the weekly column, Two Cents on Working Motherhood, for Mommy Track’d: The Working Mother’s Guide to Managed Chaos. Her writing has appeared in Glamour, Psychology Today, Redbook, The Washington Post, New York Times and other publications.
Steiner is a regular guest on the Today Show, National Public Radio, ABC, NBC, CBS, Fox News, MSNBC. She has been profiled in Newsweek, BusinessWeek, Elle, Parenting, Parents, Self, Vogue, Vanity Fair, The Los Angeles Times and The Washington Post. She is a frequent speaker and corporate consultant on the subject of marketing to moms and family violence.
Steiner holds a BA in English from Harvard College. Her first job was writing and editing for Seventeen Magazine. After graduating from Wharton in 1992 with an MBA in Marketing, she launched Splenda Brand Sweetener internationally for Johnson & Johnson. She returned to her hometown of Washington, DC in 2001 to become General Manager of the 1.1 million-circulation Washington Post Magazine, a position she held for five years.
She is a trustee for The Maret School in Washington, DC and a former spokeswoman for The Harriet Tubman Center in Minneapolis, the country’s oldest shelter for abused women and children. She lives with her husband and three young children in Washington, DC.
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