Charlotte Overby is a writer, editor, and project manager. Her writing has appeared in the New York Times on the Web, Wildlife Conservation magazine, St. Louis Post-Dispatch, University of Southern California’s Online Journalism Review, and many others. She was a staff writer and assistant editor of the Missouri Conservationist magazine for five years and has edited numerous natural history and conservation books, including Birds in Missouri and Native Landscaping for Wildlife and People.
She wrote and edited content for the national award-winning website Cockroach World: The Yuckiest Site on the Internet (http://www.nj.com/yucky/roaches/index.html), produced by Newhouse New Media for the Liberty Science Center, Jersey City, NJ. She was also a member of a web development team for the London Financial Times Newspaper, London, England, testing and evaluating software used by editors to post stories and photos on the web (http://www.ft.com).
For the past two years, Charlotte has helped establish and serve as project coordinator for Missouri River Relief, a non-profit organization dedicated to cleaning up trash from the Missouri River.
She has backpacked and bicycled in many parts of the world and especially loves the Camino de Santiago—a 500-mile ancient pilgrimage route in northern Spain. She once walked the whole route with her 70-year-old mom and 14-year-old niece.
Charlotte also plays the double bass for The People’s Republic of Klezmerica—an 8-member professional klezmer band that plays wild Eastern European Yiddish dance music. She went to Mount Holyoke College, S. Hadley, MA, and received a B.A. in English; she received an M.A. in Journalism from the University of Missouri-Columbia.