Sally Farhat Kassab is an editorial consultant who spent much of her career as a news journalist. She is also a professional blogger, and has blogged for iVillage.com, an NBC Universal digital media company, among other organizations. She is the former editor of Seattle Bride magazine, and the Northwest Best Places guidebook. She's taught media writing at the University of Washington. She writes for dozens of publications, including Natural Health, Cooking Light, In Style and MSN. She is also an editorial consultant and Web copy writer, and has done everything from ghostwrite blogs to help solidify organizations' voices and vision. At Trusera.com, a health social networking startup, she was the editor-in-chief. That role included working on content strategy, ghostwriting, marketing stories to social networks, and more.

Sally's staff career includes working at the Detroit Free Press, Seattle Times, In Style and Parents. She went freelance in 2005.

Her journalism stories have included everything from high-profile investigative crime pieces to celebrity profiles, from environmental mishaps to gardening features.

She began her career at the Kitsap Sun in a town just west of Seattle. That's where she consistently broke stories at the state capital bureau, and later covered business and local politics.

Sally received her undergraduate degree from the University of Washington in communications, focusing on print journalism, and a certificate from the New York University Summer Publishing Institute in book and magazine publishing. She paid for her university education entirely through scholarships. Throughout her career, many of her news stories were picked up by national wire services. She is a Freedom Forum Chips Quinn Scholar and former treasurer of the University of Washington Communications Alumni Club.

Sally lives in Seattle with her husband and son. When she's not writing, she's taking long walks in the woods, playing tennis, traveling the globe and spending as much time as possible in New York, where she lived for several years.