Paula Patyk Spencer is an American journalist and author who specializes in parenting and family, pregnancy, women's health, and related social issues.
Before becoming a full-time writer, Spencer was an editor in New York City and in Knoxville, Tennessee.
As an editorial director at Whittle Communications, a media company partially-owned by Time Inc., she headed health, parenting, travel, and lifestyle publications.
Spencer is a senior editor at Caring.com, a website for adult children who are their parents' caregivers.
Spencer has given talks on writing and parenting for the American Library Association, the American Society of Journalists and Authors, the North Carolina Writer's Network, the Wisconsin Early Childhood Association, the Women Today Expo, the Wisconsin Early Childhood Association annual meeting (Parent Night keynote), the Charlotte Parent Moms@Work and Carolina Parent Women@Work events (keynote), the Southern Women’s Show, the Mothers of Boys Clubs, the Women Today Expo, the Knoxville Writer’s Guild, and the North Carolina Writer’s Network Fall Conference.