Karin Tanabe is a fiction writer and former Politico reporter based in Washington, DC. Her writing has appeared in the Chicago Tribune, the Houston Chronicle, Newsday, the Miami Herald, and the Washington Post. Before writing her debut novel, The List, Karin worked as a travel writer, a celebrity journalist, a style scribe, and a society reporter. She has made frequent appearances as a celebrity and politics expert on television, including on Entertainment Tonight, Inside Edition, and CNN.