About Me

Colleen Kane is a New Jersey-born writer and former editor for BUST and Playgirl magazines. She has contributed to SPIN, Plenty, Time Out New York, and Penthouse, among others. Her essays have appeared online at CNN, Radar, the Huffington Post, and The Frisky, and she has blogged for Nerve.com, Plenty magazine, and the AOL blogs Asylum.com, Lemondrop, and Holidash.

Colleen contributed a chapter to the 2008 teen-angst collection Mortified: Love is a Battlefield from Simon and Schuster. She’s currently writing a memoir and has plenty more nonfiction books in her.

Among the personalities Colleen has interviewed are rock icons Kim Gordon and Thurston Moore (Sonic Youth); Kate Pierson (the B-52’s); the enigmatic cult filmmaker Tommy Wiseau (The Room); Sweet Valley High creator Francine Pascal; author/cartoonist Lynda Barry; actors Sean Patrick Flanery (Powder) and Niecy Nash (Reno 911); celebrated groupies Cynthia Plaster Caster and Pamela Des Barres; and numerous comics including Margaret Cho, Paul F. Tompkins (Best Week Ever), Todd Barry, Marc Maron, Mike Birbiglia, Alex Borstein (Family Guy), and Brendon Small (Metalocalypse).

Media coverage of Mrs. Kane includes a popular interview with Gothamist (which was also featured on Gawker and Jezebel), an interview on Vice UK’s blog, and numerous articles in the Baton Rouge media. She has appeared on Alison Stewart’s show The Most on MSNBC, as a talking head on CMT’s Sexiest Videos of 2006, and on the Jim Engster Show on the NPR affiliate WRKF.

Colleen lived for nearly seven years in Brooklyn until moving to Baton Rouge while her husband attends grad school, and they will return to Brooklyn in June 2010. She is having an occasionally great time and counting the days until June.

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