After 23andMe informed Liane Kupferberg Carter that she and her husband are third cousins, she landed up as the opening lead on NPR’s Morning Edition, as a punchline on NPR’s Wait Wait… Don’t Tell Me, and on the front page of an Australian tabloid, alongside such edifying stories as “I Make Bracelets from Breast Milk” and “My Ingrown Hair Was Deadly.”

When she isn’t gracing the cover of a tabloid, Liane is known nationally as a writer and outspoken advocate for the autism community. She is the author of the award-winning memoir Ketchup Is My Favorite Vegetable: A Family Grows Up With Autism (Jessica Kingsley Publishers/Hachette UK, 2015) which the American Society of Journalists and Authors named an Outstanding Book of 2017, saying, “this book beautifully captures the struggle and joy of having an autistic child.” The book has been adopted into the curriculum of numerous graduate programs in child development, psychology, social work and education. Liane has appeared on panels and podcasts, conferences, spoken to college classes and at library author events, and spent a year as an author on tour for the Jewish Book Council. She has an extensive following in the special needs community and is frequently interviewed as an expert on disability parenting.

In a lighter vein, her humorous articles on midlife and parenting have been published by the New York Times; Washington Post; New York Magazine/ The Cut; Next Avenue; Next Tribe; Parents Magazine; MarketWatch; Huffington Post; Longreads; The Rumpus; Brevity; Literary Mama; Brain, Child; Erma Bombeck’s Writers Workshop; Humor Times; Midlife Boulevard; Better After 50; Boomer Café; Scary Mommy; Grown & Flown; Kveller; and The Manifest-Station. Her work is also included in many journals, blogs, and anthologies, including Flash Nonfiction Funny, edited by Dinty Moore. She is a member of the American Society of Journalists and Authors, The Authors Guild, and Binders.

Liane worked for ten years as a book publicist, both on staff and freelance, for several book publishers, including William Morrow, Random House, and Simon & Schuster. She has a master’s in journalism from New York University and a B.A. in English from Brandeis University. She met her husband Marc at Club Med in the Bahamas and got engaged two weeks later. They are the parents of two adult sons.