gail belsky

Gail Belsky is an editor, writer and adjunct professor at Fordham University. She is the author of The List: 100 Ways to Shake up Your Life (Seal Press, 2009), and the editor of Over the Hill and Between the Sheets: Sex, Love and Lust in Middle Age (Springboard Press, 2008). She is also the managing editor of two syndicated websites, Ideas that Spark and Your Family Today.

Belsky was an executive editor in Time Inc.'s custom publishing division and at Working Mother, where she consulted on the magazine's relaunch. Before that, she was a senior editor at Parents. Belsky was executive managing editor at Selling magazine, which she helped launch. As a consultant, she worked on two Time Inc. projects: a prototype of a car-racing magazine, and the launch of the women's magazine, All You. She also produced custom publications for American Baby and, most recently, for The Knot.

Belsky has written for such diverse websites and publications as Moneywatch.com, Health.com, Prevention.com, Philadelphia Inquirer, Parents magazine, and American Baby magazine. She also contributed an essay to the collection, The Imperfect Mom: Candid Confessions of Mothers Living in the Real World (Broadway, 2006).

Belsky lives in New Jersey with her husband and two children.