Nina Malkin has been a magazine writer and editor for twenty years. She has been on staff at Cosmopolitan, Elle, Mademoiselle, and Teen People and has written for Vogue, Entertainment Weekly, Time Out New York, All You, and the L.A. Times. She was the West Coast editor for Maxim's launch and was involved with the start-up of the west-coast based alternative music magazine Ray Gun. She has written and done media training for all the major record labels, including Sony and BMG. Nina lives with her incredibly tolerant husband and two indoor cats in, of course, Brooklyn, New York.