Robin Rinaldi is the author of the memoir The Wild Oats Project, published in twelve countries and eight languages. Her work has appeared in The New York Times, The Atlantic, Poets & Writers, O, The Oprah Magazine, Yoga Journal, and others. She has been short-listed in The Best American Essays. She has worked on staff at various magazines and newspapers including Sunset, the San Francisco magazine 7×7, and at Philadelphia Weekly as an award-winning food critic. She currently edits the Hard Feelings column at The San Francisco Standard. She divides her time between northeastern Pennsylvania and the California Central Coast.