Abby Weingarten is a professional writer and editor whose work has been published in newspapers and magazines throughout the world.

As a correspondent for the New York Times Regional Newspaper Group, she regularly contributes entertainment features.

In Florida, she writes for such publications as the Sarasota Herald-Tribune, SRQ Magazine, Housetrends Magazine, Eat Media, LUX Magazine, Edible Sarasota, LWRLife Magazine, New College Magazine and Sarasota Polo Magazine, among others. Nationally, she has freelanced for US Weekly, the Associated Press, the Portland Press Herald, Go Magazine and various online publications.

Her bylined articles have appeared on the front page of The Arts section of the New York Times and the Sunday cover of the New York Post. Knight Ridder newspapers (now the McClatchy Company), the St. Petersburg Times and the International Herald-Tribune have all carried her stories. Several have been circulated on the national wire and reprinted in publications across the globe.

Abby holds a bachelor's degree from New College of Florida and lives in Sarasota, Fla. with her husband and daughter.

Contact her at AbbyWeingarten@Gmail.com.