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Hi, I'm Alexa Joy Sherman.
I was born and raised in Southern California and currently make my home in the Los Angeles area, but I'm not your typical L.A. woman. My parents hail from New York and England, and I've traveled the world to destinations including Hong Kong, Thailand, Australia, Ireland, Italy and France. I also spent the first eighteen summers of my life on Cape Cod, where my parents met as young biologists and built a family vacation home.
I earned my bachelor's degree in writing from the University of California, San Diego, and subsequently moved to Hollywood to work in the music business. I spent three years in various roles at the legendary Capitol Records, then worked for the music trade magazine HITS. There, I wrote several album endorsements a week (I can't really call them reviews, as I was being paid to plug them to radio) and interviewed a variety of recording artists, from Chris Isaak to k.d. lang to Everclear. Three years later, I left to become an editor for the teen magazine JUMP, where I relished the opportunity to make a difference in the lives of adolescent girls, encouraging them to be smart, unique, strong and real. Sadly, JUMP folded just one year after I joined the staff, and I moved on to become senior editor for Shape, the #1 women's fitness magazine in the country.
After nearly four years at Shape, I decided it was time to live the creative dream and become a full-time freelance writer. During the seven years that followed, I contributed to a variety of national consumer magazines including Family Circle, Fitness, Natural Health, Weight Watchers, Woman’s Day, and Women’s Health. I also penned a young adult fiction series for HarperTeen and Alloy Entertainment (which the Disney Channel adapted for the small screen!), and coauthored two nonfiction books: Goal Digger Fitness: Look, Feel, and Perform Your Best with a Breakthrough 14-Day Exercise Plan, written with world-class triathlete Eric Harr, and The Happy Hook-up: A Single Girl's Guide to Casual Sex, a racy but responsible look at an ever-growing social trend.
I continue to freelance on an occasional basis but in August of 2011, I accepted an opportunity to work as deputy editor for Natural Health magazine. As such, I'm learning everything there is to know about clean living, mindfulness, yoga, herbs, tinctures, acupuncture, hemp, chia ... and how to pronounce words like Ayurvedic and homeopathy. When I'm not working, I hang out with my near-perfect husband Joel, our entirely perfect son Jack, and our two dogs Sydney and Roxy (who are far from perfect, but we love them anyway).
Thanks for visiting my site. If you have questions, comments or a project you'd like to discuss, please send me an email.
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