Liane Carter

Liane is known nationally as a writer and outspoken advocate for the autism community. She is the author of the award-winning memoir Ketchup Is My Favorite Vegetable: A Family Grows Up With Autism (Jessica Kingsley Publishers/Hachette UK, 2015) which been adopted into the curriculum of numerous graduate programs in child development, psychology, social work and education. Liane has appeared on panels and podcasts, conferences, spoken to college classes and at library author events, and spent a year as an author on tour for the Jewish Book Council. She has an extensive following in the special needs community and is frequently interviewed as an expert on disability parenting.

In a lighter vein, her humorous articles on midlife and parenting have been published by the New York Times; Washington Post; New York Magazine/ The Cut; Next Avenue; Next Tribe; Parents Magazine; MarketWatch; Huffington Post; Longreads; The Rumpus; Brevity; Literary Mama; Brain, Child; Erma Bombeck’s Writers Workshop; Humor Times; Midlife Boulevard; Better After 50; Boomer Café; Scary Mommy; Grown & Flown; Kveller; and The Manifest-Station. Her work is also included in many journals, blogs, and anthologies, including Flash Nonfiction Funny, edited by Dinty Moore.