Beth Winegarner is an author, journalist, essayist and pop culture critic who's contributed to the New York Times , the New Yorker , the Guardian , the Washington Post , Wired , Mo...ver maisBeth Winegarner is an author, journalist, essayist and pop culture critic who's contributed to the New York Times , the New Yorker , the Guardian , the Washington Post , Wired , Mother Jones and many others. Her books include Sacred Sonoma , The Columbine Effect: How Five Teen Pastimes Got Caught in the Crossfire and Why Teens Are Taking Them Back and Tenacity: Heavy Metal in the Middle East and Africa . She grew up in Northern California and lives in San Francisco.ver menos