Jesse Sheidlower

[from author's website]
I am currently an adjunct assistant professor in the Writing program at Columbia University. I am the author of The F-Word, a detailed history of the word "fuck", and the Past President of the American Dialect Society. I am also the editor of the Historical Dictionary of Science Fiction. I have been an editor for Random House Dictionaries and the Oxford English Dictionary; I have been profiled on the front page of the New York Times and on 60 Minutes, and New York Magazine has named me one of the 100 smartest people in New York. I have written about language for a variety of publications, and given talks about language in many places.

When not doing language-y stuff, I moonlight as a software developer, mainly in Perl and Python, on *nix-based systems. I currently work for an academic publisher for my day job, and I have developed a number of non-public applications and a variety of public ones, including the Historical Dictionary of Science Fiction and the PangramTweets bot.

I am also keenly interested in food and wine, and have written about food for Gourmet, reviewed bars for Time Out New York, and work as a bartender at a number of (usually) underground parties. I am currently the bar manager of the Threesome Tollbooth, a very small high-end cocktail bar in Brooklyn.