Marcia Riefer Johnston

I've loved tech writing from the time I first heard the words technical and writer together. These days I bring technical and writer together as a consultant for Baxter International. In 2013, I fulfilled a dream by writing my book Word Up! How to Write Powerful Sentences and Paragraphs (And Everything You Build from Them). Two years later, my pocket-sized collection came out: You Can Say That Again: 750 Redundant Phrases to Think Twice About. Occasionally I post on my own blog at Writing.Rocks. I live in Portland, Oregon, where I make things with scrumptious yarn, do New York Times crossword puzzles with my husband (especially the Thursday and Sunday puzzles), and lure in family and friends to play Wingspan and other games.