Sybil Lockhart is a compulsive journal-writer with a Ph.D. in cell and molecular biology, and a founding member, reviews editor and columnist at Literary Mama Magazine. She has taught high school French and English, done research in developmental neurobiology, and taught neuroscience at U.C. Berkeley. Her essays can be found in the recent anthologies, Literary Mama: Reading for the Maternally Inclined (2006) and Using Our Words: Moms and Dads on Raising Kids in the Modern Neighborhood (2006), and her writing has also appeared in Brandeis University's Artemis Magazine, The Journal of Neuroscience, and The Journal of Neurobiology. One of her children's nature stories is forthcoming in Ladybug Magazine, and her essay "Naked" has been chosen for the forthcoming Alzheimer's Anthology, Beyond Forgetting. Sybil is currently at work on her book of creative nonfiction, Early Stages: a Biologist's Tale of Mothering and Daughtering, (Touchstone/Simon & Schuster, 2008). She lives in Berkeley, California with her husband and two daughters.