Stephanie Losee (born in Cold Spring Harbor, New York) is an American author, journalist, and Director of Content at Autodesk. Her previous roles were Head of Content for Visa, Executive Director of Brand Content for POLITICO, and Managing Editor of Dell Global Marketing, where she directed editorial content strategy.
Losee co-wrote the nonfiction books Office Mate: The Employee Handbook for Finding--and Managing--Romance on the Job with Helaine Olen (Adams Media: 2007) and You've Only Got Three Seconds: How to Make the Right Impression in Your Business and Social Life with Camille Lavington (Doubleday: 1997).
Stephanie Losee has appeared on CBS' The Early Show, CNN Headline News, Fox Business News, and NPR, as well as other television programs and radio shows across the country and in Britain, Europe, and Russia. Her books have been translated into Russian, Korean, and Danish. Losee has taught business writing courses to communications professionals in cities around the world and serves as a writing consultant for several Fortune 500 companies.
From 1990 to 1998 she was a reporter and contributing writer at Fortune, where she covered the technology industry. She was a regular anchor for "The Fortune Business Report" on cable station NY1 News. Previously she was an editor at PC Magazine.
Danielle Fernandes Dominique Schuelein-Steel is an American writer, best known for her romance novels. She is the bestselling living author and one of the best-selling fiction authors of all time, with over 800 million copies sold. As of 2021, she has written 190 books, including over 140 novels.
NLGJA: The Association of LGBTQ+ Journalists, is an American professional association dedicated to unbiased coverage of LGBTQ issues in the media. It is based in Washington, D.C., and the membership consists primarily of journalists, students, educators, and communications professionals. The organization was previously known as the National Lesbian and Gay Journalists Association (NLGJA), but changed its name in 2013 to "NLGJA: The Association of LGBT Journalists" to reflect the diversity of the communities it represents. In 2016, it added a "Q", updating its name to "NLGJA: The Association of LGBTQ Journalists". In 2023, it added a "+", updating its name to "NLGJA: The Association of LGBTQ+ Journalists".
Christopher Null is an American writer, film critic, and columnist. A former blogger for Yahoo! Tech, he was the editor of Drinkhacker.com, and the founder and editor-in-chief of Filmcritic.com, which operated from 1995 to 2012. In 2003, CNN called Null an "expert in media, business and technology". In 2013, Null founded Film Racket. He is a founding member of the Online Film Critics Society.
Benjamin Fong-Torres is an American rock journalist best known for his association with Rolling Stone magazine and the San Francisco Chronicle.
Mary Roach is an American author specializing in popular science and humor. She has published seven New York Times bestsellers: Stiff: The Curious Lives of Human Cadavers (2003), Spook: Science Tackles the Afterlife (2005), Bonk: The Curious Coupling of Science and Sex (2008), Packing for Mars: The Curious Science of Life in the Void (2010), Gulp: Adventures on the Alimentary Canal (2013), Grunt: The Curious Science of Humans at War (2016), and Fuzz: When Nature Breaks the Law (2021).
Debra Di Blasi is an American author, screenwriter and former publisher.
This Is Not the Life I Ordered: 50 Ways to Keep Your Head Above Water When Life Keeps Dragging You Down is a collaborative non-fiction inspirational self-help book written by Deborah Collins Stephens, Michealene Cristini Risley, Jackie Speier, and Jan Yanehiro. The book was first published in a hardcover format in 2007, by Conari Press. The first printing of the work was for thirty-five thousand copies, and a second printing is planned.
The San Francisco Examiner is a newspaper distributed in and around San Francisco, California, and published since 1863.
Constance Hale is an American writer and critic based in San Francisco. Her journalism has appeared in metropolitan newspapers and national magazines, but she is best known for her books on language: Sin and Syntax; Vex, Hex, Smash, Smooch; and Wired Style. She teaches writing and editing at Harvard University and the University of California at Berkeley.
Katherine Ellison is an American author. With two colleagues, she won the 1985 Pulitzer Prize for International Reporting for their work reporting on corruption in the Philippines.
Carol Sklenicka is an American biographer and literary scholar known for her authoritative, full-scale biographies of two important figures in late twentieth-century American literature: acclaimed short story masters Raymond Carver and Alice Adams.
Laura Fraser is an American journalist, essayist, memoirist and travel writer. Her most recent book is The Risotto Guru, published by Shebooks in 2013. All Over the Map, published by Harmony in June 2010 is described as a "coming–of-middle-age" story about her adventures exploring the globe. It is a sequel to her first memoir, the New York Times-bestselling An Italian Affair. All Over the Map was included in Oprah's Top Ten to Read Now for Summer, ranked #2 Bestseller in Denver, and awarded Traveler Book of the Month by National Geographic magazine. Fraser is co-founder and Editorial Director of Shebooks.net, an ebook publishing platform for women. She is based in San Francisco.
Tess Collins is an American novelist and theatre manager.
Merla Zellerbach, née Myrle Carmel Burstein, was born in San Francisco in 1930, the daughter of Rabbi Elliot M. and Lottie Burstein. While attending Stanford University, she met and soon thereafter married Stephen Zellerbach. They had one child, son Gary. Her literary, civic and philanthropic work began at the time of her first marriage. By the time of her death on December 26, 2014, she authored 13 well reviewed novels and five self-help medical books, was a panelist for six years on the ABC TV show Oh My Word, and a columnist for the San Francisco Chronicle. Subsequently, she was Editor of the Nob Hill Gazette for twelve years. Charities she supported and/or worked for included Compassion and Choices, the Coalition on Homelessness San Francisco, the Kidney Foundation, and a dozen more.
Janis Cooke Newman is an American writer. She is known for her novels, Mary: Mrs. A. Lincoln and A Master Plan for Rescue as well as her memoir The Russian Word for Snow. She lives in San Francisco and is a long-time member of the San Francisco Writers’ Grotto, a member of The Castro Writers Coop, as well as the founder of the Lit Camp Writers’ Conference.
Nellie Bowles is an American journalist. She is noted for covering the technology world of Silicon Valley. She worked as a journalist for the English-language Argentine daily the Buenos Aires Herald, the San Francisco Chronicle, The California Sunday Magazine, the technology journalism website Recode, the British daily The Guardian beginning in 2016, then for Vice News and most recently The New York Times.
Rachel Khong is an American writer and editor based in San Francisco.
Alice Joyce Kahn is an American nurse practitioner and humorist who popularized the slang word "yuppie", describing young urban professionals, and also the term "Gourmet Ghetto", naming an influential retail neighborhood of Berkeley, California. Kahn was a regular contributor to East Bay Express, a columnist at the San Francisco Chronicle, and a syndicated columnist at the Los Angeles Times. She has also written for Mother Jones magazine and the San Jose Mercury News. A self-professed "sit-down comic" noted for her "Jewish-American wit", her understated brand of humor has been compared to that of Erma Bombeck. The Chicago Reader commented on her liberal political viewpoint, writing that she was "Joan Rivers with a social conscience."
Emily Dreyfuss is an American journalist. She is a Senior Fellow on the Technology and Social Change team at Harvard's Shorenstein Center for Media, Politics, and Public Policy, where she edits the Media Manipulation Casebook and is the co-lead of the Harvard Shorenstein Center News Leaders program, which develops best practices for newsrooms to deal with misinformation. Dreyfuss was a 2018 Nieman Berkman Klein Fellow, the founding editorial director of the tech news site Protocol, and a Senior Editor and Writer at WIRED magazine.
Karen Berger is an American writer, long-distance backpacker, and speaker. She is the author of adventure narratives, guidebooks, instructional books, and essays about the U.S. national scenic and historic trails, worldwide trails, and hiking and backpacking skills and techniques.
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