Rebecca Woolf

Rebecca Woolf has worked as a personal essayist since her early teens, contributing to numerous publications, websites and anthologies, most notably her own award-winning personal blog, Girl’s Gone Child (est 2005) which attracted millions of unique visitors worldwide. She has written columns for Babble, Mom.me, and Romper and has been featured in New York Magazine, The New York Times, NPR, Refinery29, LitHub and more. She currently authors the column Sex & the Single Mom and the braid newsletter on substack and co-teaches The Living Gaze grief writer’s workshop and The Bench Sessions, a private community for women contemplating divorce.

She is the author of Rockabye: From Wild to Child (Seal Press, 2008) and the bestselling memoir, ALL OF THIS: a memoir of death and desire (Harper One, 2022) and when she isn’t writing herself, works one-on-one with memoirists as a book coach.

She is the mother of one adult son and three teenage daughters who she has proudly raised on her own for eight years.

She lives in Los Angeles and appreciates a good vanity plate over almost anything else.