Heather Hewett is a writer and an associate professor of English and Women’s, Gender, and Sexuality Studies at the State University of New York at New Paltz who has written for a range of popular and academic venues. Her personal essays about raising a daughter with food allergies have appeared in the Motherlode Blog at The New York Times, CNN.com, Brain, Child magazine, and the anthology The Good Mother Myth (Seal Press). She has published academic research on motherhood, food allergies, and writing about illness and disability for a range of scholarly journals and books. She speaks frequently at college campuses and professional conferences throughout the U.S. and Canada. She received her B.A. from Yale University and her Ph.D. from the University of Wisconsin-Madison.