Jodi Warshaw heads up the Lifestyle category at Chronicle Books, acquiring lifestyle titles of all sorts, specializing in fashion, beauty, parenting, home décor, craft, and gardening. She’s especially interested in titles with a DIY slant and is always looking for the next big thing in craft. Her specialty is creating book-plus packages—books that include extras such as pattern sheets, stencils, embroidery tranfers, and more. She’s worked with some of the top names in the craft world including Kaari Meng, Amy Butler, Jennifer Paganelli, Jenny Hart, and Lotta Jansdotter. She got her start in publishing in Olympia, Washington in 1991, with a fanzine called Pinto Magazine. With her two co-founders, they printed 5,000 copies of each issue and blanketed the Pacific Northwest. How many copies were actually read, no one will never know. In 1993 she took an internship in New York at Alfred A. Knopf with Gordon Lish, formerly the fiction editor at Esquire and famously known as Captain Fiction. When Lish left Knopf she stayed on with him as managing editor of his literary magazine, The Quarterly. After The Quarterly lost funding she landed at Chronicle Books where she’s been since 1999. She lives in San Francisco with her husband and son.