Rita Arens

Rita Arens is the assignment and syndication editor for BlogHer. Her writing has appeared in Scholastic Parent & Child, Babble, The Kansas City Star, SuperEco, The Rockhurst Review and other outstanding print and online publishing venues. Her personal blog, Surrender, Dorothy, has won her attention in Forbes Woman, Businessweek online and The Wall Street Journal. She is the editor of parenting anthology SLEEP IS FOR THE WEAK (Chicago Review Press, 2008) and a contributor to KIRTSY TAKES A BOW (Bright Sky Press, 2010). She lives with her husband and daughter in Kansas City.