Caren Osten Gerszberg writes essays and feature articles on just about any topic--but mostly travel and education. A contributor to The New York Times, Caren wrote a bi-weekly column, Mom U, for the nytimes.com education blog, "The Choice," about her daughter's college admissions process.

Caren’s work has appeared in The New York Times, National Geographic Traveler, Travel & Leisure, Town & Country, Cosmopolitan, Time Out NY, Child, Parents, Cookie, the International Herald Tribune and others. She recently started blogging for The Huffington Post.

She is the co-founder and editor of the Drinking Diaries, a blog about women and drinking. Drinking Diaries: Women Serve Their Stories Straight Up (Seal Press), an anthology of original essays, will be published in Fall 2012.

Read about all things travel and transition related on Caren's new blog, Embark.

Recent News:
-Curious about how the Drinking Diaries got started? Here's the answer in an essay for a new blog, BA50.
-Here's my ABC News interview about sending kids off to college (with an appearance by my daughter, Nicole)
- And a link to my interview on ABC News Now about women and drinking.