Karen Macklin is a San Francisco-based writer, editor, and yogini who is originally from New York. She has written for more than a dozen publications nationally, including the New York Times, SF Weekly, FitYoga, and Tricycle magazine. Her creative works, which include plays and poetry, have been produced and published in the United States and Italy. She holds an M.F.A. in Creative Writing from San Francisco State University and spent 2006 teaching journalism at the university in Guatemala City on a State Department fellowship. She is currently the editorial director of Zest Books, and is co-author of Indie Girl, a book that advises teen girls about getting involved in the arts. Karen is also a registered yoga teacher.
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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.
Valerie Reiss is a freelance writer and Holistic Spirituality Editor at Beliefnet.com. She was articles editor at Breathe magazine and her work has appeared in The New York Times, Natural Health, Yoga Journal, Vegetarian Times and Newsweek. She's a graduate of Columbia University's Graduate School of Journalism. You can reach her at: Valeriereiss.com.
Jaimal Yogis is a freelance writer living in San Francisco.
