Growing up in Los Angeles, Katherine Turman had three consuming interests—reading, writing and horses. At the age of 13, she became a polo groom at Will Rogers State Park and learned to play the game; at 16, she landed her first magazine job at a trade publishing company, Canon Communications, earning the nickname “Teenage Circulation Manager” and kick-starting her journalistic career.

While attending USC’s journalism school, Katherine found time to play on the school’s polo team; out of the saddle, an internship at the Los Angeles Times Calendar arts section included bylined features and reviews, and post graduation, to freelance writing and pop music reviewing for the Times. Magazine journalism is Katherine’s forte and passion and following an assistant editor job at trade publications Pool & Spa News and Fitness Management, she became entertainment editor of ‘TEEN. From there, it was a seven-year stint at Larry Flynt publications, where she rose to the position of Editor in Chief for the national music and lifestyle magazine RIP, redesigning the publication and interviewing hundreds of musicians, including Kurt Cobain. Katherine also freelanced extensively in publications including Spin, Rolling Stone, Raygun, Daily Variety, Guitar World, Los Angeles Reader, New Times, Bikini, Seventeen and Amazon.com, and chronicled the Los Angeles music scene in her “Raw Power” column in BAM magazine.

A job offer became a six-year tenure at the syndicated live radio show Rockline, where, as producer, Katherine booked artists including Paul McCartney and helped earn the program a Billboard Monitor award. Katherine then accepted a job as a music producer at “The Sharon Osbourne Show,” while other television endeavors include the role of researcher for VH1's "Bands Reunited," and on-camera interviewee in several VH1 “Behind the Music” episodes. She has also been a guest speaker and panelist at several music and journalism conferences.

During her forays into radio and TV, Katherine continued freelancing, adding Mother Jones, Black Book, a Guitar One column, Billboard, San Francisco Weekly and Ingénue to her resume, and soon returned to a full-time position as the editor of the L.A. Alternative Press. There she honed the paper’s coverage while profiling leading L.A.-based authors, personalities and politicians. Throughout the years Katherine has covered diverse topics, including fair trade issues, food and wine, installation artists, circus sideshows, film actors and producers—and even a from-prison interview with a convicted murderer-turned-artist.

A radio opportunity triggered a move to New York, where, in 2005, now-Brooklynite Katherine became producer of Nights With Alice Cooper, a syndicated classic rock radio show hosted by the “School’s Out” star. She continues to indulge her love of the printed word, freelancing for Marie Claire, Bass Player, Stop Smiling and Southwest Airlines’ Spirit while making time for travel, wine, books, her husband, and, occasionally, sleep.