Dr. Andrea O' Reilly, full professor in the School of Gender, Sexuality and Women's Studies at York University, is internationally recognized as the founder of Motherhood Studies and its subfield Maternal Theory, and creator of Matricentric Feminism, a feminism for and about mothers, and Matricritics, a literary theory and practice for a reading of mother-focused texts (2021). She is founder/editor-in-chief of the Journal of the Motherhood Initiative and publisher of Demeter Press, as well as co-editor/editor of thirty-plus books on many motherhood topics She has a PhD in Creative Writing and an MA in Women's Studies. Her writing has been included in a wide variety of publications including other Demeter Press anthologies. She is co-editor, along with Andrea O' Reilly and Fiona Joy Green, of Coming Into Being: Mothers on Finding and Realizing Feminism (Demeter Press). She is a feminist mother of three, and she lives in Alberta where she writes and sometimes teaches writing-related classes too. She is the sole author of Practicing Feminist Mothering (ARP), co-editor of ten Demeter Press collections addressing ever-changing feminist maternal praxis and pedagogies, and author of many encyclopedia entries, peer-reviewed articles and chapters discussing feminist mothering, matricentric feminism, matroreform, motherlines, female genital cutting, gender fluidity, mommy blogging, and family engagement with privacy and boundary setting related to media and technologies.