Masha Rumer is an award-winning journalist, freelance writer and former college English instructor with nearly a decade of teaching experience. Her writing about parenting (including immigrant identity) has appeared in The New York Times, The Washington Post, SheKnows, Kveller, The Chicago Tribune, Quartz, The Moscow Times, Scary Mommy, SFWeekly, Volume 1 Brooklyn, and others. She holds graduate degrees in communications and in literature from Georgetown University and The Graduate Center of The City University of New York. Masha has developed her platforms on Twitter and Facebook, where her followers include best-selling fiction and non-fiction authors, and writers and editors at national publications. She lives in the Bay Area with her husband and two children. You can find her online at masharumer.com, on her blog The Flying Yenta, and on Twitter.