Doree Shafrir is an American author and editor at Rolling Stone

Rolling Stone

Rolling Stone is a US-based magazine devoted to music, liberal politics, and popular culture that is published every two weeks. Rolling Stone was founded in San Francisco in 1967 by Jann Wenner and music critic Ralph J...

. She was previously an editor at Gawker and The New York Observer. She lives in Brooklyn

Brooklyn

Brooklyn is the most populous of New York City's five boroughs, with nearly 2.6 million residents, and the second-largest in area. Since 1896, Brooklyn has had the same boundaries as Kings County, which is now the most populous county in New York State and the second-most densely populated...

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With Jessica Grose she founded the Postcards From Yo Momma website. She and Grose co-authored a book based on Postcards From Yo Momma, titled Love, Mom: Poignant, Goofy, Brilliant Messages from Home, which was published by Hyperion

Hyperion (publisher)

Hyperion Books is a general-interest book publishing part of the Disney-ABC Television Group, a division of The Walt Disney Company, established in 1991. Hyperion publishes general-interest fiction and non-fiction books for adults under the following imprints: ABC Daytime Press, ESPN Books,...

in March 2009.