Sherri Rifkin is a writer living in New York City. Ms. Rifkin writes for a variety of entertainment and media clients, including USA Network, Bravo and the Style Network. She is a regular contributor to the Style Network’s fashion, beauty and home décor blog, MyStyle.com. Recently, she contributed to the book, The Enlightened Bracketologist: The Final Four of Everything, edited by Mark Reiter and Richard Sandomir (Bloomsbury March 2007). In September 2007, she was awarded a fellowship from the Virginia Center for the Creative Arts (VCCA) in Amherst, Virginia.

She is the author of a number of web, newspaper and magazine articles—including a “Carrie Bradshaw”-esque weekly web column under the pseudonym Sydney Ridgeway for TBS’s launch of Sex and the City and features for the New York Post’s Sunday TV section—as well as two non-fiction books: Givin’ It Their All (Ballantine), an unauthorized biography of the Backstreet Boys, and Astrological Intelligence: A Practical System for Illuminating Life’s Everyday Choices co-written with Andrea Valeria, a well-known astrologer in the U.S. and Mexico (Harmony). Prior to dedicating herself to writing full time, she was a cable television marketing executive at Bravo and Oxygen, in charge of online marketing at HarperCollins and a book editor at both Harmony Books and Ballantine Books. She is currently at work on her second novel.