Nina Shen Rastogi is a writer and editor who was forged in the Bay Area, shaped by Brooklyn, and polished in Seattle, and who has now come full circle back to San Francisco. A former columnist for Slate, her work has appeared in the Washington Post, the International Herald Tribune, Salon, and other publications. Her dulcet tones have been heard on such programs as All Things Considered, Talk of the Nation, WNYC's Soundcheck, the Slate Culture Gabfest and the DoubleX Gabfest. She's been Vulture's Game of Thrones recapper for multiple seasons now, which is where all of her Twitter followers come from.