While being a stay-at-home mom for
the last seventeen years, Beren wrote her social commentary/humor column, “I Kid You Not”,
publishing in GLBTQ newspapers across the country,
including The Philadelphia Gay News, the Washington Blade and the
Gay & Lesbian Times. She’s written about life as a
lesbian mom for Curve, And Baby, and
Proud Parenting magazines, written editorials for online eco magazine
www.Greenlight.com and the
Oregonian,
as well as reviews for The Lesbian Review of Books. Her writing appears in The Complete Lesbian & Gay Parenting
Guide, by Ari Istar Lev, published by Berkley/Penguin in 2004. Her creative
nonfiction book,
The Brides of March: Memoir of a Same-Sex Marriage,
was published in April, 2007, and has since received a Writer's Digest
International Self-Published Book Award, an IPPY, a Foreword Magazine Book of
the Year Award, a Reader Views Award, a National Indie Excellence Award and is a
Finalist for the 2008 Oregon Book Awards.
When she is not
writing, doing laundry, or driving children all over town, she paints portraits. Her work has been exhibited at Caffe Destino, Green Dog
Pet Supply, Urban Fauna, juried exhibition "The Art Show at the Dog Show" and at
Inavale Farms Horse Trials, June 2008. She has donated portraits to DoveLewis, da Vinci Arts Middle School,
Multnomah Playschool, Artists for Alameda, and the Children's Cancer Association.
Beren deMotier lives in Portland, Oregon with
her spouse of twenty-one years, their three
children, a guinea pig, a rabbit, one fish, and a Labrador the
size of a small horse.
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