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Author Bio
Birth—ca. 1977
Raised—in the state of Pennsylvania, USA
Education—Barnard College
Currently—lives in Seattle, Washington


Angela Garbes (GARB-es) is a Seattle-based writer specializing in food, bodies, women’s health, and issues of racial equity and diversity. Garbes began writing for Seattle's newsweekly, The Stranger, in 2006, and became a staff writer in 2014.

Her piece “The More I Learn About Breast Milk, the More Amazed I Am” is the publication’s most-read piece in its twenty-four-year history, and the inspiration for this book.

Garbes is an experienced public speaker, frequent radio and podcast guest, and event moderator. She grew up in a food-obsessed, immigrant Filipino household iin a small town in Pennsylvania and now lives in Seattle with her husband and two children. (From the publisher.)