Gina Misiroglu is a fourteen-year veteran of the West Coast publishing industry, specializing in the development and editing of popular culture, reference, and women's studies. Misiroglu has edited and developed hundreds of books in her publishing career for a number of presses, including Price Stern Sloan/HP Books, New World Library, Lowell House, Visible Ink Press, Macmillan Reference USA, and Adams Media Corporation. Misiroglu is the author of "Girls Like Us: 40 Extraordinary Women Celebrate Girlhoods in Story, Poetry, and Song" (New World Library, 1999), winner of the New York Public Library's "Best Book for Teens" Award, and "Imagine: The Spirit of Twentieth-Century American Heroes" (New World Library, 1999). She lives in Los Angeles, California.