ABOUT

​Alexa Joy Sherman has worked in publishing for the better part of her adult life. After earning a bachelor’s degree in Literature/Writing from the University of California, San Diego, she moved to Los Angeles to work for the legendary Capitol Records in a variety of departments, from publicity to marketing. From there, she headed to the irreverent music industry trade magazine Hits, rising to the level of associate editor while reviewing albums, interviewing recording artists, and editing columns in genres spanning alternative, pop, rock, and urban.

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She later made the leap to consumer magazines, serving as senior associate editor for the edgy teen mag Jump, where her beat included features on popular girls and rave culture, as well as A-listers like Gwen Stefani and Jessica Simpson. Subsequent roles included senior editor for Shape, the #1 women’s fitness magazine in the country, deputy editor for Natural Health, editor in chief for beauty industry trade magazine Eye Lash, and managing editor for Dayspa.

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As a freelance writer, Sherman has contributed to popular titles including Family Circle, Fitness, O: The Oprah Magazine, Parents, Woman’s Day, and Women’s Health, and coauthored two nonfiction books: Goal Digger Fitness (Rodale Books), written with world-class triathlete Eric Harr, and The Happy Hook-up (Ten Speed Press), a racy but responsible look at casual sex and the single girl.

 

Additionally, writing as Alexa Young, she penned the four-book YA fiction series Frenemies (HarperTeen), which inspired a Disney Channel TV-movie starring Bella Thorne and Zendaya, as well as a number of books for young readers including Disney novels based on the hit TV series Girl Meets World and Andi Mack.

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