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Katie Singer

After graduating from Antioch College, I was Writer-in-residence at South Boston High (1983 - 89), the school that became famous through busing and desegregation. In 1991, I landed in New Mexico and began writing The Wholeness of a Broken Heart. The novel was published in 1999 by Riverhead/Penguin; it was a selection of Barnes & Noble's Discover Great New Writers Program.

My new book, The Garden of Fertility: A Guide to Charting Your Fertility Signals to Prevent or Achieve Pregnancy - Naturally - and to Gauge Gynecological Health, was published in 2004 by Avery/Penguin. Please visit www.GardenofFertility.com to learn more about Fertility Awareness and this book.

I'm now working on a new novel and a collection of essays about fertility, creativity, and nature. I also speak about a variety of topics, including publishing and the importance of the menstrual cycle to female identity, at conferences around the country.

books by Katie Singer

The Garden of Fertility

A Guide to Charting Your Fertility Signals
To Prevent or Achieve Pregnancy - Naturally -
And To Gauge Your Reproductive Health

Are you trying to get pregnant – or trying not to? Katie Singer’s latest book, The Garden of Fertility (Avery/Penguin 2004), introduces Fertility Awareness, a method that can be used as natural birth control or as natural infertility treatments. Reading your fertility charts can also help you assess your gynecological health, including whether you are ovulating, prone to ovarian cysts, thyroid problems, polycystic ovarian syndrome (PCOS) or miscarriage.

The Garden of Fertility explains how to identify when you are fertile and infertile, breastfeeding and ovulation, common products that can be hazardous to reproductive health, natural remedies for strengthening gynecological health including nutrition and nightlighting techniques, and provides stories about healing childbearing losses.

You’ll also meet women conducting research on their own cycles. The book includes charts of women getting off the pill, charting with an IUD, on Clomid, after an abortion, coming off Depo-Provera, and approaching menopause.

The Garden of Fertility web site offers free fertility charts for you to download; supplementary information on male and female reproductive anatomy and sexually transmitted infections; cervix pictures; and additional resources related to fertility and food, the environment, pregnancy and more.

Visit www.gardenoffertility.com for more about this new book. On this site you can also download a free ovulation calendar/fertility chart.

The Wholeness of a Broken Heart

Published by Riverhead Books - Penguin Putnam
Now Available in Paperback!

1999 selection of the Barnes & Noble Discover Great New Writers Program, soon to be translated into Dutch, Finnish and Hebrew.

"A mother/daughter masterpiece ... Singer spins a tale of loyalty and betrayal. Spanning Eastern European pogroms, the Holocaust and contemporary collegiate life, Singer's debut is both a social history of the American Jewish experience and a meditation on the bonds between women."

-- Sara Nelson, Self Magazine

Katie Singer's novel, THE WHOLENESS OF A BROKEN HEART, introduces a mother and daughter who love each other but do not speak; it was a selection of Barnes & Noble's Discover Great New Writers' Program.