Lisa Belkin is a contributing writer for The New York Times Magazine, where she writes frequently about family life and has a regular blog on nytimes.com called Motherlode: Adventures in Parenting.

For nearly 10 years, Lisa was the Life's Work columnist for the Times, exploring the balance (or imbalance) of home and work. She now hosts Life's Work with Lisa Belkin" on XM satellite radio and is the author of three books, including Life's Work: Confessions of an Unbalanced Mom and First, Do No Harm.

Lisa lives in New York with her husband, Bruce, and their two teenage sons.