Eugenie Seifer Olson (edit name/settings)

I was raised in a town in northern New Jersey that was for many years best known for its White Castle. Over the years, I’ve lived in Boston, Philadelphia, and Milan, Italy, and I went to Boston University to study graphic design.

I did stints working in a children’s museum, a lingerie store, and a toy company before realizing that I might like to spend my days writing. My first writing job was at Kidshealth.org, a consumer health Web site. From there, I went to Dana-Farber Cancer Institute in Boston, which is where I work now as an editor. It was back in 1999 that I had the idea to write a novel based on my experiences in the toy business, and after many drafts, countless rejection letters, and much weepiness, BABE IN TOYLAND was finally taken on by an agent, sold to Avon Trade Paperbacks, and published in March of 2004. THE PAJAMA GAME came out a year later, and then LOVE IN THE TIME OF TAFFETA followed soon after.

I took a breather from writing to have a shortie in 2007. A few months after he was born, I got the idea for a book of pregnancy haiku. There were so many books that I’d read when I was pregnant, but they were either too leaden, trying too hard to be funny, or weird in some inexplicable way. I started by writing a few haiku about maternity underwear, vivid sex dreams, and morning sickness, and before I knew it, there were tons of them. My hope is that the book makes pregnancy more tolerable for all the ladies out there, and gives them a few laughs.

When I’m not working, writing, or taking care of my son, I love to read (I just finished the Vincent Lam novel about med students – AWESOME), watch DVDs (hey now; we just finished re-watching The Larry Sanders Show), make fitful attempts to exercise regularly, travel to visit the shortie’s relatives, and think about makeup. I live in Massachusetts, with my husband David, our son, and our two cats, Kiddun and Loki.