Michelle Zaffino

Michelle Zaffino is an American author of young adult fiction and memoir, a digital librarian, information architect and content consultant based in San Francisco.

Early Life and Education

Zaffino grew up in Warren, Pennsylvania. She graduated from the University of Pittsburgh with a B.A. in English Writing (Magazine concentration), and Women’s Studies. While at Pitt, Zaffino was a member of the Kappa Kappa Gamma women's fraternity.[1] She continued her studies at the University of Pittsburgh and later completed the master's program in Library and Information Science with a concentration in Digital Libraries, Information Architecture, Management and Reference, in 2012.[2]

Career

Zaffino moved to New York City to pursue a career in magazine writing and editing. During her time there she worked as a writer, editor and researcher at Hearst Corporation for publications such as Marie Claire, Redbook, Elle, Sports Afield and Esquire. While managing the research department of Marie Claire, she wrote Does Your Guy Need A Makeover?,[3] which inspired TV’s Queer Eye for the Straight Guy. Zaffino also worked in New York as the office assistant to literary photojournalist Jill Krementz. Her work has been published in Marie Claire, Redbook, Sports Afield, SEEN, Double Negative, IndiePlanet, Mr. Beller’s Neighborhood, The Bold Italic.[4] and is featured in Takemywordforit.net, an organization dedicated to igniting kid's passions for writing.[5]

She recently completed her first teen novel, How Good it Can Be, and a sequel, The Love Quad, both Saffron Stories novels. How Good It Can Be is a heavily-veiled retelling of the assault of the author by a high school boyfriend, and appeared on the syllabus for freshman English Composition at the University of Texas in Spring 2016.[6] Her forthcoming historical young adult novel, Allegra, is based on the discovery of the satirical Pasquino statue in Rome, inspired by her paternal grandmother's surname. Zaffino also recently completed a memoir chronicling the journey of her first novel to publication. She received the Savvy Life Blogger Award in 2014. She's currently serializing the interactive mystery Skylar Saffron, Librarian Detective online.

Zaffino is the Founder, CEO and Chief Digital Librarian of In the Stacks.tv, a web portal that aggregates book content produced by librarians.[7][8][9] The In the Stacks products provide book recommendations based on ranked librarian book reviews via the ITS app and expert database, called the Librarian Brain.[10][11] Founded in 2008, In the Stacks is the first online video book review program hosted by a librarian, and the associated eBook publishing company, In the Stacks Publishing, participates in Litquake Lit Crawl in San Francisco, where Librarian Authors In the Stacks read from their recent work.[12]In the Stacks is startup-in-residence at the San Francisco Mechanics' Institute, and demonstrated the book discovery app there in March 2016.[13][14][15][16]

Works

The Saffron Stories Novels:

References

  1. ↑ "The Key Magazine Vol. 126, No. 4". www.thekey.kappa.org. Retrieved 11 April 2015.
  2. ↑ "ischool Recognition Ceremony". www.ischool.pitt.edu. Retrieved 11 June 2014.
  3. ↑ "Does your guy need a makeover?". www.ebscohost.com/. Retrieved 25 April 2015.
  4. ↑ "Michelle Zaffino's Profile - The Bold Italic - San Francisco". www.thebolditalic.com. Retrieved 11 June 2014.
  5. ↑ ""Take My Word For It!" - creative writing for kids: Jobs for Writers: Meet Michelle Zaffino!". www.takemywordforit.typepad.com/. Retrieved 25 April 2015.
  6. ↑ "Discussion: How Good It Can Be". www.howgooditcanbe.com. Retrieved 6 November 2016.
  7. ↑ "Michelle Zaffino". www.wn.com. Retrieved 25 May 2015.
  8. ↑ "Michelle Zaffino's Page - Library 2.0". www.library20.com. Retrieved 25 May 2015.
  9. ↑ "Michelle Zaffino - Founder, CTO Chief Digital Librarian @ In the Stacks - CrunchBase". www.crunchbase.com. Retrieved 25 May 2015.
  10. ↑ "Librarian Seeks Funding For Video Book Reviews App". www.adweek.com. Retrieved 25 May 2015.
  11. ↑ "The Librarian Brain @ In the Stacks". www.librarianbrain.com/. Retrieved 12 May 2015.
  12. ↑ "Librarian Authors In the Stacks". www.litquake.org. Retrieved 25 April 2015.
  13. ↑ "Women Wine & Startups". www.milibrary.org. Retrieved 5 November 2016.
  14. ↑ "Internet Librarian 2016 Speakers". www.internet-librarian.infotoday.com. Retrieved 5 November 2016.
  15. ↑ "Mechanics' Institute Reinvention". www.milibrary.org. Retrieved 5 November 2016.
  16. ↑ "Incubators, Coding, Creative Media Studios". www.internet-librarian.infotoday.com. Retrieved 5 November 2016.

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