Cecelia A. Cancellaro has more than twenty years of publishing experience. She began her career as an editor at Routledge Press and was also an editor at Schocken Books in the Knopf Group at Random House. Her goal has always been to bring intellectually and politically important work to a wide readership. She has published many award-winning and paradigm-shifting books in a variety of areas close to her heart, including feminism, history, race, and spirituality. She is the author of a book about pregnancy and writes frequently on women's issues. She lives with her husband, Eric, and their two daughters, Ruby and Lila, in Maplewood, New Jersey.