Vick­ie Rubin, M.S. Ed. is the author of the award-win­ning mem­oir Rais­ing Jess: A Sto­ry of Hope, pub­lished by Page Pub­lish­ing. This heart­warm­ing sto­ry describes the joy and chal­lenges of car­ing for her daugh­ter, who was born with a rare chro­mo­some dele­tion. Vick­ie’s debut mem­oir won the 2022 Read­ers’ Favorite Gold Medal Award for Non-Fic­tion and was a Final­ist in the Best Book Award and Books Excel­lence Award for inspi­ra­tional mem­oir. Her sto­ries have been pub­lished in Newsweek, as well as In dis­abil­i­ty-relat­ed pub­li­ca­tions and opin­ion pieces. Vick­ie start­ed writ­ing her humor­ous blog in 2020; she writes reg­u­lar­ly about rais­ing a child with a dis­abil­i­ty, fam­i­ly, mar­riage, and RV Travel.