SEATTLE MAGAZINE EDITOR BIOS

Rachel Hart, Editorial Director, Tiger Oak Publications and editor of Seattle magazine
As editorial director in Tiger Oak's Seattle office—and editor of award-winning Seattle magazine—Rachel oversees the editorial operations of Seattle, Seattle Bride, Oregon Bride, Northwest Home, Seattle Business Monthly, Northwest Meetings + Events, and Tiger Oak custom publications. Rachel's love of trends, arts, urban living and pop culture helps her capture the zeitgeist of Seattle in the pages of Tiger Oak's magazines. With 17 years of experience in city magazines, Rachel feels magazines should tell the story of what's happening in a city right now. Her team has recruited some of the city's top luminaries and writers to pen stories for Seattle's premiere journals of news, culture, and lifestyle. Before moving to Seattle in 1997, Rachel worked as features editor and associate publisher for eight years at Madison magazine in Madison, Wisconsin, where she won an Ozzie Award for a custom publication. Under her direction the magazines in Seattle have received dozens of awards from the Society of Professional Journalists and media coverage around the sound. She holds a Bachelor of Science in journalism from the University of Wisconsin at Madison. She lives in Seattle with her husband and two young sons.

Virginia Smyth, Managing Editor

Virginia is an avid consumer of news on education and local politics. She brings stories on hot-button issues of the region to life in the pages of Seattle magazine. During her thirty years of reporting and editing experience, she has received awards from the Society of Professional Journalists, Washington Newspaper Publishers Association, National Newspaper Publishers Association, and Parenting Publications of America. At Seattle magazine, she oversees investigative journalism and service packages such as the annual Top Doctors and Best Neighborhoods stories. Virginia has followed her childhood passion for journalism from the shores of New Jersey to Seattle, where she received her Bachelor of Arts in communications from the University of Washington. She enjoys spending time beside a beach bonfire with her friends, husband, son and daughter.

Brangien Davis, Arts and Culture Editor

(Accepts pitches for Arts, Events, Pop culture, Trends)

(Accepts pitches for Food, Restaurants and Wine)

After living in New York City for the last seven years, Andrea is thrilled to return to her native Seattle. She has worked in the editorial and fashion departments of numerous Condé Nast publications, such as Vanity Fair, Vogue, Lucky, Self and Bon Appétit, and spent three years at Zink magazine. Now, she’s returned to the Pacific Northwest to take the helm as Seattle magazine’s lifestyle editor, where she oversees all stories about food and wine, shopping, beauty and entertaining. In her free time, she enjoys foraging local farmer’s markets, discovering new wines, eating out, traveling, and all things hedonistic, naturally.

 

Shannon O'Leary, Northwest Home Editor
(Accepts pitches for Home and Garden; also accepts pitches for Home and Garden Events)
The founding editor of Northwest Home, and unabashed home-body, loves that her job is all about improving people's home life. Whether covering the area's greatest residential designs or smallest accents (say, old hubcabs turned into cool cabinet handles), the Seattle native is in her element. The veteran journalist is also a contributing editor for Seattle, where she helps shape its annual Most Influential people feature, and former editor of MetropolitanLiving, Washington Law & Politics and Best Places Seattle. An award-winning freelance writer, Shannon has penned film, book and restaurant reviews, profiled personalities and covered legal issues for a variety of publications.

Karen Johnson, Web Editor

(Accepts pitches for Blogs, Online stories, Calendar of Events) 

Sheila is the research editor for Seattle, Seattle Business Monthly and Northwest Home magazines. Examples of her comprehensive, controlled, substantive research for Seattle magazine include the annual Top Doctors issue, Best Neighborhoods issue and the Charitable Events Guide. She holds a Master of Arts in English literature from the University of California at Long Beach, a Master of Science in business policy from Columbia University, and writing certificates in literary fiction and creative nonfiction from the University of Washington. Sheila is happy to spread the myth that Seattle is a rainy city.

Hope Misterek, Style and Fashion Editor

Hope got her start as a wardrobe and prop stylist in the film industry. Now she captivates readers with imagery of fashion trends and styles of each season for Seattle magazine's fashion spreads and bi-monthly Style departments and fashion features in Seattle Bride. Her work has also appeared in Northwest Meetings + Events, Northwest Home, Seattle Weekly, Desert Living, Vive, Six Degrees, Soma, Vogue, and Ego. She has also covered fashion shows for Supermodels Unlimited. Her portfolio can be viewed online, fashionandstyling.com. She holds a business degree from Northeastern University.

Kelley L. Moore, Entertaining Editor

After a decade as the city's events planner, Kelley Moore began styling and producing distinctly Northwest entertaining stories for Seattle magazine and Northwest Home in 2003. Since then, Kelley has become Seattle's lifestyle and entertaining expert who regularly appears on KING 5 News and KONG TV, with design, style, and entertainment tips. A pilot of her own show, "Moore to Life," debuted in December on KING TV. Her recent book, "Cube Chic: Take Your Office Space from Drab to Fab," illustrates how to create fun environments out of dreary office spaces. Kelley has also appeared as an entertaining and lifestyle expert on Ellen, The Today Show, Tyra Banks and her clients include Microsoft, Getty Images, Lexus, Ronald McDonald Children's Charities, and Hollywood celebrities.

Ernie Pino, Flash Talk columnist Ernie Pino wears a few hats: For the past eight years he has been the monthly Flash/Talk columnist for Seattle Magazine, dishing the scoop on Seattle's party and society scene. His journalistic endeavors have spanned the pages of various publications, including Alaska Airlines in-flight magazine and The Oregonian. Ernie's also an accomplished self-trained chef, most recently teaching Tapas and Paella aboard Holland America's Fall '06 Mediterranean cruise. He's been a voice and on-screen actor since 1980. Raised in a bilingual home, his fluency in Spanish and English has made it possible for him to work on various multiethnic projects, including television, radio and film, as well as books-on-tape and CD Rom's. Ernie is the president of Producciones Pino, in Lynnwood, Washington, an Hispanic advertising and media agency. Occasionally, he grabs a few Z's.

Knute Berger, editor at large
A Seattle native, Berger has served as editor of  Seattle Weekly three times in the last two decades and authored the popular Mossback column on Seattle politics and goings-on. He is also the founding editor and publisher of Eastsideweek, one of the country's first suburban alternative weeklies and former editor of Washington magazine. Knute's column in Seattle magazine will offer a critical look at the changing face of our city and region. As editor at large, Berger will contribute his insight to Seattle's politics, culture and civic issues. Berger also appears weekly on KUOW's "Weekday with Steve Scher" to review the news of the week. His Mossback column is now featured on crosscut.com.