Norine Dworkin

Norine is an award-winning journalist and author with 30-plus years experience as a print and digital media reporter. Norine’s writing has been published in daily newspapers (Orange County Register, Cleveland Plain Dealer, Miami Herald), LGBTQ weeklies, The Village Voice and national magazines, including Redbook, Marie Claire, More, Family Circle, Prevention, Shape and Reader's Digest. She won the 2024 Society for Professional Journalists' Sunshine State Award for General Commentary and Criticism. Her book, co-authored with VoxPopuli Art Director Jessica Ziegler, Science of Parenthood: Thoroughly Unscientific Explanations for Utterly Baffling Parenting Situations won the 2016 Independent Book Publishers Association Gold Benjamin Franklin Award for Parenting/Family. Her essays have been published in several anthologies, including Chicken Soup for the Soul's Be You (2021). She holds a BA from Oberlin College and an MA from New York University. She lives in Winter Garden.