Michaele Weissman Michaele Weissman is a free-lance journalist and author who writes about food, families, business and American culture. Her work appears in the New York Times, the Washington Post, the Wall Street Journal and many other publications. Her articles in the New York Times and elsewhere about specialty coffee generated great interest and led to her writing God in a Cup. Ms. Weissman is the co-author with Carol Hymowitz of Bantam’s A History of Women in America, a narrative history of women that has sold over 200,000 copies. With Dr. Deborah Prothrow-Stith, she co-wrote HarperCollins’ Deadly Consequence, an exploration of teenage violence. Ms. Weissman teaches writing in the New Directions in Psychoanalysis, a program for scholars and psychotherapists offered by the Washington Center for Psychoanalysis from which she graduated in 2005. She also has a degree in European history from Brandeis University. An accomplished home cook and hostess, Michaele is the stepmother of two daughters and birthmother of one son, all of whom cook, one of whom owns a restaurant in New York City. She is married to John Melngailis, a professor of electrical engineering, who co-owns a small company that imports authentic Baltic rye from Latvia. She lives, writes and cooks in Chevy Chase, Maryland. You can read some of her articles and the first installments of her just-launched coffee blog at her website, michaeleweissmanwrites.com.