Angela Garbes

Angela Garbes began writing for the Seattle 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 genesis of this book. Garbes is an experienced public speaker, frequent radio commentator, and event moderator. She grew up in a food-obsessed, immigrant Filipino household and now lives in Seattle with her husband and two children. Like a...See more

Angela Garbes began writing for the Seattle 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 genesis of this book. Garbes is an experienced public speaker, frequent radio commentator, and event moderator. She grew up in a food-obsessed, immigrant Filipino household and now lives in Seattle with her husband and two children. Like a Mother is her first narrative book. See less