Camille Peri

Camille Peri is an author and journalist who founded the groundbreaking website Mothers Who Think, part of the online publication Salon. She coedited the national bestseller Mothers Who Think: Tales of Real-Life Parenthood and Because I Said So: 33 Mothers Write About Children, Sex, Men, Aging, Faith, Race & Themselves, which received an American Book Award. She has written and edited for VogueLadies’ Home JournalLos Angeles Times MagazineMother JonesWebMDReader’s Digest and the San Francisco Chronicle and Examiner Sunday magazine.

Books in order of publication:

Mothers Who Think: Tales Of Real-Life Parenthood – 1999

Because I Said So: 33 Mothers Write About Children, Sex, Men, Aging, Faith, Race, and Themselves – 2005

A Wilder Shore: The Romantic Odyssey of Fanny and Robert Louis Stevenson – 2024