Aileen Weintraub, Author and Editor

Aileen Weintraub is an award-winning author, journalist, content writer, strategic storyteller, and developmental editor. She writes about health, advocacy, longevity, food, and travel.

She is a regular contributor to Oprah Daily and Healthy Women. Her work has also been featured in The Smithsonian Magazine, The Washington Post, HuffPost, NBC, AARP, The Infatuation, Euronews, and many other publications. Her content writing has appeared in ThymeCare, Hone Health, The Compass, and Northwell Hospital’s award winning publication The Well, along with many others.

Her latest book is Knocked Down: A High-Risk Memoir, about a Brooklyn girl who moves to the country, gets married, and finds herself living in a rickety farmhouse, knocked up, and faced with the prospect of five months of bed rest. The Erma Bombeck Workshop named Aileen Humor Writer of the Month for Knocked Down and Publishers Weekly says, “…there’s beauty on every page.”

Aileen is also the author of the middle-grade social justice book WE GOT GAME! 35 Female Athletes Who Changed the World, which was honored as A Mighty Girl’s Best Book of the Year. Her best-selling Never Too Young: 50 Unstoppable Kids Who Made a Difference won a Parents’ Choice Award. She also writes licensed Lilo and Stitch books for Scholastic.

Aileen pronounces her name with a long A, like the first letter of the alphabet.

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