Gail Konop Baker

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Inner Vixen article on HuffPost received more than 1100 comments!

Oct.03.2011

Inner Vixen article on HuffPost received more than 1100 comments!

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PUBLISHED: Sep.08.2008

CANCER IS A BITCH: Or, I'd Rather Be Having a Midlife Crisis

Gail Konop Baker's CANCER IS A BITCH, is an intimate, brutally honest and often humorous account of the author's brush with breast cancer and its intersection with midlife, motherhood and marriage

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Sep.20.2011 - 3:18 pm

oy. this needs updating.

ummmmmmmm..... last time I posted here I wasn't officially a published author. I wasn't divorced. I hadn't moved to a flat on the other side of town. I wasn't yet addicted to...

Sep.05.2008 - 4:26 pm

interviews, events, reviews oh my...

After four intense days taking our daughter to college and one day home to wash clothes and then 7 hours up to Madeline Island in Lake Superior and three days of outdoor bliss......

Aug.17.2008 - 7:36 am

please read this online review of my memoir to see why NOT to be afraid to read it!!

I know the word cancer scares people. It scares me. But that is part of the reason I wrote this memoir, to try to de-stigmatize cancer for other survivors. I believe it is one of...

Aug.12.2008 - 12:54 pm

nyc trip and booklist and why I write

My trip to NYC to the Backspace conference was exciting and exhausting and a taste of what's to come in the months ahead. At yoga last night I was describing what it feels like to...

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Sep.12.2008 - 5:26 am

In response to: Never

beautiful Ericka...

Sep.06.2008 - 4:40 pm

In response to: interviews, events, reviews oh my...

You're so sweet, Shana!!

You're so sweet, Shana!! Thanks for saying that! Are you near San Fran or NYC? Because I'd love ot meet you at one of...

Sep.06.2008 - 5:41 am

In response to: interviews, events, reviews oh my...

thanks for saying that

thanks for saying that Eric...

Jul.26.2008 - 7:27 am

In response to: Dude, I'm a Ballerina Livin' In a Candy Castle!

lovely post, Kristy. I

lovely post, Kristy. I hadn't seen the video until yesterday and it was so real so inspiring so touching and it made me...

Jul.23.2008 - 7:22 am

In response to: Some Weeks Make Up For YEARS...

I'm so happy that you're

I'm so happy that you're happy!!! And while not making more predictions.... hold on, this is only the beginning...

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Jul.07.2008

CANCER IS A BITCH: Or, I'd Rather Be Having a Midlife Crisis

Published by Publishers Weekly

Baker, a former columnist for the online magazine Literary Mama living in Madison, Wis., is busy on her novel—with a protagonist she happens to have diagnosed with breast cancer—...

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About Gail

Gail Konop Baker's work has been published in Marie Claire, Health Magazine, Literary Mama, Talking River Review, The Potomac, Mota, The Danforth Review, Madison Magazine, Yankee Pot Roast, Wisconsin Trails, Xanadu, Womansong, Pudding Magazine, Glass Review,...

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Causes Gail Baker Supports

health and wellness

social justice and equality

anything green and/or organic

Gail’s Favorite Books

The Great Gatsby, Anna Karenina, The Catcher in the Rye, To the Lighthouse, anything by Grace Paley, selected essays of Ralph Waldo Emerson, Operating...