Katrina Alcorn

Below is a partial list of some of the places I or my writing have been featured recently.

 

 

• “Stressed? Find Ways to Beat Burn Out and Do What Matters Most” | Oct. 2015 | USA Today
   

• “Exquisite Insanity: Moms Who Write” (video) | June 6, 2015 | Bay Area Book Festival
   

• “How to Solve Your Work-Life Imbalance” | Mar. 3, 2015 | US News & World Report
   

• “Why Busier Isn’t Better” | Feb. 3, 2015 | US News & World Report
   

• "7 Reasons I Love My Boss" | Aug. 2, 2014 |MarketWatch
   

• "What Single Policy Could Ease Americans’ Time Crunch?" | May 29, 2014 | TIME.com
   

• “10 Books that Should Be Required Reading for Parents” | May 5, 2014 | BabyCenter.com
   

• "5 New Year's Resolutions from Women to Watch" | Dec. 30 2013 | NPR.org
   

• "Why Stress is Taking a Toll on Moms and How to Handle It" | Dec. 29, 2013 | FoxNews.com
   

• Maxed Out selected as a "Modern Mom Must-Read" | Dec. 9, 2013 | Barnes & Noble book blog
   

• "Exhausted!" | Dec. 8, 2013 | The Sunday Times (UK)
   

• Maxed Out bookstore reading—watch video here | Dec. 1, 2013 | CSPAN BookTV
   

• "After Being Pushed to the Limit Herself, This Author Examines Why Moms Get Maxed Out" | Nov. 28, 2013 | The Globe & Mail
   

• "Woman Speaks Out on Overworked Mothers" (live TV interview) | Nov. 22, 2013 | WGN Morning News (Chicago)
   

• "Learn to Say No to Find Balance in Busy Life" | Nov. 17, 2013 | Detroit Free Press
   

• "Five Best Friday Columns" | Nov. 15, 2013 | Atlantic Wire(My Motherlode story from 11/13 was selected for the Best Columns list.)
   

• "10 Ways ‘Maxed Out’ Moms Can Start Changing Things Right Now, Thank You Author Katrina Alcorn” | Nov. 13, 2013 | Parents.com
   

• "‘Maxed Out’ Author Thought Readers Would Critique Her Ideas. Instead, They Judged Her Choices" | Nov. 13, 2013 | The New York Times—Motherlode
   

• “Here’s what the Swedes get right about parenting that Americans don’t” | Nov. 12, 2013 | Business Insider
   

• "Being a Working Mother Means Always Having to Say You're Sorry" | Nov. 4, 2013 | The New York Times— Motherlode
   

• "Are You Feeling Maxed Out?" | Nov. Issue | Bay Area Parent
   

• "Three Tips for Maxed Out Moms" | Oct. 23, 2013 | Canadian Living
   

• "How to Help Maxed Out Moms, Overwhelmed Parents" | Oct. 20, 2013 | St. Louis Post Dispatch
   

• "Why This Mom Doesn't Believe in 'Leaning In'" | Oct. 15, 2013 | Forbes
  For the record, my views on Sheryl Sandberg's book and message are more nuanced than the headline would suggest. Read my review of Lean In here>
   

• Live nationally syndicated radio interview | Oct. 13, 2013 | America Weekend

 

• Live satellite TV interview | Oct. 10, 2013 | Sunrise (Australia's most highly rated morning talk show!)
   

• Author interview | Oct.9, 2013 | CBS radio, St. Louis
   

• “When Does Work-Life Balance Become a Public Health Crisis?” | Sept. 24, 2013 | TIME Magazine
   

• “The Back-to-Work Guilt Trip” | Sept. 20,2013 | The Daily Beast
   

• “On the Brink: Many Working Moms Falling Apart, Author Says” | Sept. 18, 2013 | TODAY Show Moms site
   

• "Maxed out: That's the life of American moms, who live "on the brink," new book says" | Sept. 16, 2013 | Orlando Sentinel
   

• "Sometimes When Moms Lean In at Work, They Fall Over" | Sept. 11, 2013 | The Washington Post
   

• "Brood Reads: Our August Picks for Parents" | Aug. 28, 2013 | Parade Magazine
  My book, Maxed Out, was selected as one of four recommended books for parents by the editors at Parade!
   

• "10 Things Moms Can Do to Challenge America's Hostile Environment for Working Women" | Aug. 2013 | Alternet
   

• "Why Women Helping Women Is Essential to Workplace Flexibility" | August 2013 | The Huffington Post
   

• "Lean In or Lean Out: America's Pregnant Workers Decide" | July 31, 2013 | CBS New York
   

• "What a Mother Needs Most Is Time" | May 2013 | The Atlantic
   

• "Working From Home Saves Me Thousands" | Mar. 2013 | CNN Money
   

• "Working Moms Need More Than Subsidized Breast Pumps" | Feb. 2013 | Business Week
   

• "We Are Women. Hear Us Roar. Again." | May 2012 | Diablo Magazine
   

• The Second Shift | 2012 edition
  I'm really, really honored to be included in the 2012 updated version of Arlie Hochschild's bestselling book about the stalled gender revolution, which was first published in 1989. The new Afterward quotes, for three paragraphs, a Huffington Post piece I wrote in 2010 called "If You Give a Mouse a Prozac."