Longtime journalist Robin Rinaldi was born on the East Coast but has lived most of her adult life in California. She spent nine years living in San Francisco, where she was executive editor of7x7, a glossy magazine covering the city’s culture, dining, and nightlife. When she wasn’t working in Union Square (and discovering its every last hidden lunch spot), she was walking the hills of the Castro, seeing live music at the Fillmore, lining up for morning buns with everyone else outside Tartine, and cheering the Giants on at AT&T Park. Robin has profiled many of the San Francisco’s politicians, artists, and designers, relishing the bohemian reputation and progressive antics of her favorite city. If she had to pick one idyllic spot to spend an afternoon other than in a motorboat on the bay it would be the crowded aisles of City Lights Bookstore.
An experienced food and arts writer, Robin also wrote an award-winning food column forPhiladelphia Weekly and is the author of two books on dance. Her writing has appeared in theNew York Times and O, The Oprah Magazine, among other publications. Her most recent book is a memoir,The Wild Oats Project: One Woman’s Midlife Quest for Passion at Any Cost. She now resides in Los Angeles, and makes the drive up Interstate 5 on a regular basis to visit her adopted hometown.
