Melanie Notkin

Melanie Notkin is the national best-selling author of Savvy Auntie: The Ultimate Guide for Cool Aunts, Great-Aunts, Godmothers, and All Women Who Love Kids (William Morrow) and the founder and personality behind Savvy Auntie, the beloved lifestyle brand celebrating modern aunthood. In 2009, Notkin established Auntie’s Day, the first annual day to honor aunts and godmothers. Notkin is the foremost expert on the emerging demographic of childless, often single, women in North America. She has shared her research, writing, and popular voice as a contributor to The New York Post, Quillette Magazine, The New York Times, Washington Post, Huffington Post, and PsychologyToday.com, among others, and appears regularly on national television, radio, and the web. Her second book, "Otherhood: Modern Women Finding a New Kind of Happiness," a reported memoir (Seal Press/Penguin Canada 2014), received a prestigious Booklist *Starred Review.* Melanie Notkin and her work have been featured in The New York Times, Wall Street Journal, Chicago Tribune, TODAY Show, CNN, Rachael Ray, NPR, BBC and more.