Jessica Lipnack is author, with Jeff Stamps, of Virtual Teams (Wiley)--along with five other books, including Networking (Doubleday), The Networking Book (Viking Penguin), and The Age of the Network (Wiley)--that have been translated around the world.She started her career as a reporter at The Pottstown (PA) Mercury at age 16 where she began by writing weddings and obits and quickly progressed to covering local township supervisor meetings that were conducted in Pennsylvania Dutch. Lacking a translator, she soon was writing features and columns, including "Dear Beatrice," for which, as a teenager, she was unqualified to offer advice. Meanwhile, she served as editorial page editor of The George School News, her high school paper, assistant managing editor of the Antioch Record during college, and not too long after did freelance writing for Boston After Dark, now The Phoenix.As a creative writer, Jessica's work has appeared in Ars Medica, Global City Review, Mothering, The Futurist, Five Star Literary Stories, Melusine, and Six Word Stories. Profiles of her appear in Writers in Profile and A Storied Career. She also has written for The New York Times, The Boston Globe, Seattle-Post Intelligencer, The Industry Standard, Dayton Daily News, New Age Journal (now Body+Mind), Mother Earth News, and many other publications. She's also written for The Brookings Institution, where she has lectured, and was an early contributor to Our Bodies, Ourselves.Jessica's blog, Endless Knots, launched in 2005, has readers around the world. She has taught blogging in the Pine Manor MFA program, at the U.S. Army's Command and General Staff College, and at the Solstice Summer Writers' Conference.Noted articles and book chapters include "Can Absence Make a Team Grow Stronger?" (Harvard Business Review), which also appears in "HBR's 10 Must-Reads on Teams;" "The Virtual, Networked Organization" (in The Handbook of High Performance Virtual Teams, Jossey-Bass); and "Bucky Fuller: The Prophet Comes Home" (Boston Globe). She also served as co-editor and principal writer for the U.S. Army's Teams of Leaders Handbook and has written forewords to many books.When not writing, Jessica is knitting, gardening, doing yoga, and wasting time online.