Alysia Abbott is a writer and former WNYC radio producer. Her work recently <a href="http://krccnetwork.org/tbs/2010/05/06/a-mothers-lament-an-essay-for-mothers-day/">aired on KRCC</a> and has appeared in a number of anthologies and publications, including Time Out and Salon.com. She is currently working on a memoir about her own childhood.