Deborah Bishop writes from her office on South Park—the oval greensward where Jack London was rumored to have been born (and the actual birthplace of Twitter).

Bishop’s beat is primarily art, design, architecture, and craft for such publications such as American Craft Magazine, Dwell, Salon, SF Chronicle, Luxe, and Patterns + Insights, among others; her catalog essay on ceramist Wanxin Zhang was commissioned by the Museum of Craft & Design. Book projects include StyleCity San Francisco (Thames & Hudson)—a snapshot of the city’s retail and culinary landscape in the early aughts (that today provokes pangs of nostalgia)—and Hello Midnight: An Insomniac’s Literary Bedside Companion (Simon & Schuster). As editorial director at Smith & Hawken, she oversaw the company’s book imprint at Workman Publishing.

Bishop serves on the board of the San Francisco Arts Education Project, an organization that sends working artists into the public schools to teach visual and performing arts and whose gallery is at Minnesota Street Project. The non-profit evolved from one founded in 1968 by Ruth Asawa—a worthy legacy indeed.