Abby Weingarten is a professional writer whose work has been published in newspapers and magazines throughout the world.

As a correspondent for the New York Times Regional Newspaper Group, she regularly contributes entertainment features, historical retrospectives, research-based commentaries and celebrity profiles.

She has interviewed former Attorney General Janet Reno, actors Jennifer Love Hewitt, Sam Elliott, Woody Harrelson, Peter Falk, Harland Williams and Dennis Miller, as well as musicians such as Aerosmith, Cyndi Lauper, Everclear, the Beach Boys, Todd Rundgren, Styx, Angels & Airwaves, Nickel Creek, Bullet For My Valentine, Fall Out Boy, Jo Dee Messina, Staind, Evanescence, Hilary Duff, the Doobie Brothers, the Psychedelic Furs, the Reverend Horton Heat, the Go-Go’s and Henry Rollins.

In Florida, she writes for such publications as the Sarasota Herald-Tribune, SRQ Magazine, Housetrends Magazine, Eat Media, LUX Magazine, Creative Loafing, New College Magazine and Sarasota Polo Magazine, among others. Nationally, she has freelanced for US Weekly, the Associated Press and the Portland Press Herald.

Her bylined articles have appeared on the front page of The Arts section of the New York Times and the Sunday cover of the New York Post. Knight Ridder newspapers (now the McClatchy Company), the St. Petersburg Times and the International Herald-Tribune have all carried her stories. Several have been circulated on the national wire and reprinted in publications across the globe.

Abby holds a bachelor's degree from New College of Florida and lives in Sarasota, Fla. with her husband and daughter.

Contact her at AbbyWeingarten@Gmail.com.