Author Archives: Janet Steen

About Janet Steen

Janet Steen started on the editorial staff at Esquire, where she tweaked the prose of writers including Norman Mailer, Denis Johnson, and Mary Gaitskill. She went on to become the books editor at Time Out New York, an editor at Us Weekly, and the literary editor at Details. She has written about books, music, film, and other varieties of pop culture for the New York Times Book Review, Interview, Details, Us Weekly, and Time Out New York.Her profile subjects include such widely varying personalities as Steve Martin, Barry White, Martin Amis, and Dennis Hopper. She received her M.A. in writing from Johns Hopkins University. She edits books and is a co-founder of Editrixie.com, and lives in upstate N.Y.