When she was 19, Vicki Larson somehow convinced her parents that she should spend the summer traveling cross-country with friends to gather stories to write the Great American Novel instead of working and saving money for college. She has yet to write that novel, but is incredibly honored and humbled nonetheless to have had a long, enjoyable career telling other people's stories as a journalist.A native New Yorker, Vicki is a divorced mom of two wonderful young men who happen to be taller than she is now so she's a lot nicer to them. In addition to a being an award-winning writer and editor at a San Francisco Bay Area newspaper, she is a frequent contributor to the Huffington Post, Divorce360, Mommy Tracked: Managing the Chaos of Modern Motherhood; Modern Mom, and the Good Men Project.Her essays have appeared in "Nothing But the Truth So Help Me God: 73 Women on Life's Transitions" and "Knowing Pains: Women on Love, Sex and Work in Our 40s," a fundraiser for breast cancer.