Erika Heet has been working in publishing for more than 20 years, including years spent as a senior editor at Architectural Digest and Robb Report, and as the editor of The Robb Report Collection. Her career includes freelance stints with Bon Appétit magazine, The Berkeley Fiction Review and Surfer magazine. She recently wrote the foreword to an upcoming monograph on architect Shay Zak. She lives in a Topanga cabin with her husband, an artist, and two children.