Ona Gritz is the author of the poetry collection Geode, a finalist for the Main Street Rag Poetry Book Award, and On the Whole: a Story of Mothering and Disability, a memoir that Paige Bennett of BlogHer says, "reads like poetry" and "should be required reading for all new moms." Together with her husband, Daniel Simpson, Ona co-wrote Border Songs: A Conversation in Poems and co-edited More Challenges for the Delusional, an anthology of prompts, prose, and poetry. A long-time columnist for Literary Mama, her work has appeared in The New York Times, The Guardian, The Utne Reader, Ploughshares, The Bellevue Literary Review, Beauty Is a Verb: The New Poetry of Disability, and many other journals and anthologies. Ona's children's book, Tangerines and Tea, My Grandparents and Me, was named Best Alphabet Book of 2005 by Nick Jr. Family Magazine, and one of six Best Books of the year by Scholastic Parent & Child Magazine. Among her recent honors are two Notable mentions in The Best American Essays, a Best Life Story in Salon, and a winning entry in The Poetry Archive Now: Wordview 2020 project. Ona lives with her family in Lansdowne, Pennsylvania.