Jill Yesko

Jill Yesko's writing career has spanned more than two decades. She's worked as a reporter, editor and freelance journalist for publications ranging from The Baltimore Sun to Shape magazine. Along the way, Jill's written about everything from hiking the mud flats of northern Holland to profiling Olympic athletes and U.S. Senators. After a year-long, solo trip halfway around the world, Jill was featured as an "adventurous traveler" in O, the Oprah Magazine. Jill's commentaries on caring for her father can be heard on NPR.

Prior to her career in journalism, Jill was a national-class cyclist, doctoral student in cultural geography and very briefly, a cartographer.

A New Jersey native, Jill now lives in her adopted hometown of Baltimore, Maryland with her basset hound.