Aileen Weintraub

Aileen Weintraub is an author, editor, and journalist. Her humorous book KNOCKED DOWN: A HIGH-RISK MEMOIR is about a Brooklyn girl who moves to the country, has a whirlwind romance, and ends up on pregnancy-related bedrest in a rickety old farmhouse due to unusually large fibroids. She is also the author of WE GOT GAME! 35 FEMALE ATHLETES WHO CHANGED THE WORLD, a Mighty Girl Best Book of the Year. Her previous bestselling book NEVER TOO YOUNG! 50 UNSTOPPABLE KIDS WHO MADE A DIFFERENCE won a 2018 Parent's Choice award. Aileen's work has been featured in The Washington Post, AARP, NBC, Glamour, Al Jazeera, and HuffPost, among others. She lives in New York. Find out more about her at www.aileenweintraub.com and follow her on Twitter @aileenweintraub