Erika Schickel is an author, journalist, and essayist and has written for such publications as Los Angeles Times, The Los Angeles Review of Books, LA Weekly, LA City Beat, LA Observed.com, Bust Magazine, The Huffington Post, and The Chicago Tribune, among others. Erika’s first book, You’re Not the Boss of Me: Adventures of a Modern Mom (2007), was a People Magazine pick and a Walmart “Latest and Greatest” book.