![](https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/598a0b909f7456df89609231/1679951445282-2N2OIJXTA9SQKY0WKLZW/2023+headshot-sm.jpg)
Beth Winegarner
Beth Winegarner is a journalist, author, essayist and pop culture critic who’s contributed to the New York Times, the New Yorker, The Guardian, The Washington Post, Wired, Mother Jones, and many others. She is a former daily news reporter for the San Francisco Examiner and a former contributor to The San Francisco Chronicle. She is the author of several books, including Sacred Sonoma, The Columbine Effect: How Five Teen Pastimes Got Caught in the Crossfire and Why Teens are Taking Them Back, and Tenacity: Heavy Metal in the Middle East and Africa. Her newest book is San Francisco’s Forgotten Cemeteries: A Buried History.