Jeff Dondero has a diverse background and much experience in writing, ranging from B2B articles, books, hard news, and interviews to feature writing to internet content. After studying business and law at the University of San Francisco, and communications, broadcast arts, English, and journalism at San Francisco State University, he began his career as stringer and freelancer for the San Francisco Examiner. He worked as a reporter, editor, and contributor for several newspapers and magazines in the San Francisco Bay area, was the entertainment editor for the Marin Independent Journal, wrote for KTVU-TV, toiled in a trade magazine mill, and cocreated a website dedicated to the technology of sustainable construction industries, the Green Building Digest.
He was invited to be writer-in-residence at an art colony in Rancho Linda Vista, Arizona, in 2014, where he wrote a slim volume of poetry and researched material for upcoming books. He continues to expand his national readership with books, social media, various writers’ blogs, websites, and radio and television appearances.
His previous books include The Energy Wise Home, The Energy Wise Workplace, and Throwaway Nation, all published by Rowman & Littlefield. Other books include Do You Want to Survive (24) Natural Disasters, The Marin Companion, and Brutal Beauty, a collection of poems written as a writer-in-residence in the Rancho Linda Vista art colony.
Jeff Dondero lives and works in Rohnert Park, Sonoma County, California.