Steffie Nelson has written for publications including The New York Times, The Los Angeles Review of Books, W Magazine, and Los Angeles Magazine. From 2011-13 she was editor in chief of Pasadena Magazine. Steffie lives in Echo Park with her chihuahua, Daisy. She is working on a history of Cosmic Los Angeles.
Interview 
Artists at Work: Lita Albuquerque by Steffie Nelson
For more than 40 years, Lita Albuquerque’s work has delivered a sense of timeless mythos into the practice of contemporary art. Creating site-specific installations, performances, and films in far-flung places from North Africa to the South Pole, she strikingly invigorates the enduring dialogue between earth and sky.
Essay 
On a Dark Desert Highway: The Manifest Destiny Billboard Project by Steffie Nelson
The Manifest Destiny Billboard project, co-curated by artist Zoe Crosher and Shamim M. Momin, director of LAND (Los Angeles Nomadic Division) is a coast-to-coast road trip of an exhibition. Popping up along 2,000 miles of Interstate 10, ten artist-designed billboards each contribute a chapter to the story of western expansion.