Leslie Morgan Steiner

Leslie Morgan Steiner lives in Washington, DC with her husband and three young children. She works at The Washington Post where she writes about working motherhood at her blog On Balance.

Her writing was first published in Seventeen Magazine when she was 21 and a senior at Harvard College. After college she worked as a writer and editor at Seventeen, exploring subjects ranging from eating disorders to teen runaways to family relationships. She went on to contribute to Mademoiselle, Money Magazine, and other magazines, and to work as a restaurant critic and feature writer for New England Monthly. Her essay Starving for Perfection appeared in the anthology The College Reader (Harper Collins).

In addition to years as a nonfiction magazine writer and editor, Steiner has an MBA degree in marketing from the Wharton School of Business. She launched Splenda Brand Sweetener around the world for Johnson & Johnson, the world’s largest consumer healthcare company. Over the years, she has turned her professional experience into advocacy for abused women as a spokeswoman at The Harriet Tubman Center in Minneapolis. She joined The Washington Post in February 2001.