Joanne Gordon was a writer at Forbes magazine from 1998 to 2003 and has written about management, career, and workplace issues for Boston Magazine, Working Mother, Seventeen, and the Chicago Tribune. Before becoming a professional writer, she spent six years in marketing and, in 1997, earned a graduate degree from the Medill School of Journalism at Northwestern University. She is the co-author of Roadtrip Nation with Mike Marriner and Nathan Gebhard, as well as the author of Be Happy At Work and Career Bliss. She lives in the Pacific Northwest.