Stacie Stukin is a Los Angeles native who has been practicing yoga for almost 20 years and writing about it for nearly as long. Her personal practice incorporates elements of Iyengar, Ashtanga, and Kundalini, and she checks out classes and teachers all over the city.

In addition to writing about yoga, she writes about health, design, food and wine, and travel for the New York Times, the Los Angeles Times, Yoga Journal, Time, Elle, Vegetarian Times, among others. She has written a book with Natalie Chanin of Alabama Chanin, called the Alabama Stitch Book: Contemporary Stories, Lessons and Projects Celebrating Traditional Hand Sewing, Quilting and Embroidery, which will be released by Stewart Tabori and Chang in the spring of 2008.