ALEXANDRA ZISSU is a writer, editor, speaker, and greenproofer. Sheʼs the author of The Conscious Kitchen (Clarkson Potter, 2010), and co-author of The Complete Organic Pregnancy (Collins, 2006), plus two books due out in 2011 – one with a grass-fed and organic meat butcher, the other with the co-founder of Seventh Generation. Her “Ask an Organic Mom” column is featured on TheDailyGreen.com. She has worked for New York Magazine, T: The New York Times Style Magazine, Lifetime and Details magazines, The New York Observer and Womenʼs Wear Daily. Over the past decade, her stories have also appeared in The New York Times, The Green Guide, Plenty, Cookie, Bon Appétit, Health, Vogue, Teen Vogue, Self, Child, Time Out New York, Harperʼs Bazaar and The Huffington Post, among other publications. She speaks often about all things eco-friendly at private firms, mothersʼ groups, schools, non-profits, and industry expos, and greenproofs – consults about conscious living — for individuals and organizations. A selection of safer products she recommends can be found at The Open Sky Project. She lives in New York with her (organic) family.