Jade Walker is a journalist, a Web producer, an obituarist, a romantic, a foodie, a poet, a witch, a vampire and a cat lover. She's the overnight editor/producer for Yahoo! News and previously worked in the same position for The Associated Press and The New York Times.

Ms. Walker has published or appeared in several books, including the dark poetry collection, "Sex, Death and Other..." (2002, Metropolis Ink). In her spare time, she writes obits for The Blog of Death, produces The Written Word quote service and blogs for the Obituary Forum, Once Upon a Time... and Jade Walker's Oddities.