Riki Markowitz is a writer living in Austin, Texas. She spent most of the 90s and 2000s living in New York City where she was the research chief at Latina, Redbook, Stuff, and Family Circle magazines. She was a reporter, research editor and writer at Maxim, Arthur Frommer's Budget Travel, Lucky and The Knot. Riki's writing and reporting expertise is in health, family, home decorating, travel, culture and many other quirky topics like Japanese bug fights and what your favorite pizza toppings say about you. Riki Markowitz is a native of the Philadelphia suburbs. She moved to Austin, Texas at the end of 2009 for no good reason in particular.