{{short description|American journalist and author}} {{Infobox person | name = Nancy Rommelmann | image = Nancy Rommelmann - Eric Adams arraignment 2024-09-27 011 (cropped).jpg | caption = Rommelmann reporting on the federal prosecution of Eric Adams in 2024 | education = {{plainlist| * Wesleyan University (BA) * Queens University of Charlotte (MA)}} | occupation = {{flatlist| *Journalist *Author}} | years_active = 1994–present | website = {{url|nancyrommelmann.com}} }} '''Nancy Rommelmann''' is an American journalist, book reviewer, and author.
==Personal life== Rommelmann and her husband, Din Johnson, have lived in Portland, Oregon since 2004.<ref name="RommelmanPortlandization">{{cite news |last1=Rommelman |first1=Nancy |title=Portlandization: It Can Happen to a Place Near You |url=https://www.tabletmag.com/jewish-news-and-politics/287751/good-luck-portland |accessdate=12 July 2019 |work=Tablet |date=12 July 2019}}</ref>
In September 2005, Johnson opened a coffee shop, Ristretto Roasters, in Portland's Beaumont-Wilshire neighborhood.<ref name="LorincziLevel">{{cite news |last1=Lorinczi |first1=Seth |title=DAILY GRIND; Fanatical home roasters take Portland's coffee buzz to a higher level |work=Wilammette Week |date=25 January 2006}}</ref> The shop grew into a small chain.<ref name="HerronBusiness">{{cite news |last1=Herron |first1=Elise |title=In Op-Ed For Quillette, Nancy Rommelmann Says #MeNeither Videos Could Cause Ristretto Roasters to Go Out of Business |url=https://www.wweek.com/news/2019/02/19/in-op-ed-for-quillette-nancy-rommelmann-says-meneither-videos-could-cause-ristretto-roasters-to-go-out-of-business/ |accessdate=14 July 2019 |work=Willamette Week |date=19 February 2019}}</ref>
== Career == Rommelmann has worked as a journalist and author since the mid-1990s and has written fiction, nonfiction, and cultural commentary.
==Books== ''To the Bridge, a True Story of Motherhood and Murder'' (2018), tells the nonfiction story of a mother in Portland, Oregon who dropped her small children off a high bridge to their death in an icy river.<ref name="ManguWard">{{cite news |last1=Mangu-Ward |first1=Katherine |title=To the Bridge |work=Reason |date=October 2018}}</ref><ref name="BakerCrime">{{cite news |last1=Baker |first1=Jeff |title=Revisiting a mother's devastating crime |work=The Oregonian |date=1 July 2018}}</ref>
''The Bad Mother'' (2011), a novel, followed "a cluster of street kids in L.A. as they make catastrophically bad choices."<ref name="ManguWard" /><ref name="MirkReview">{{cite news |last1=Mirk |first1=Sarah |title=The Bad Mother (book review) |work=Portland Mercury |date=21 April 2011}}</ref> A review in Reason described both ''Bad Mother'' and ''To the Bridge'' as storytelling that is "equal parts horrifying and lyrical."<ref>{{Cite web |last=Mangu-Ward |first=Katherine |date=2018-10-01 |title=To the Bridge |url=https://reason.com/2018/10/01/to-the-bridge/ |access-date=2026-02-23 |website=Reason.com |language=en-US}}</ref>
''The Queens of Montague Street'' (2012) is a memoir about growing up in Brooklyn Heights in the 1970s.
''Transportation'' (2013) is a collection of Rommelmann's short stories.<ref name="BakerArm">{{cite news |last1=Baker |first1=Jeff |title=Podcasts give book culture a shot in the arm |work=The Oregonian |date=27 January 2013}}</ref>
''Destination Gacy'' (2014) is an account of her cross-country journey to interview serial killer John Wayne Gacy shortly before his scheduled execution.
''Rommelmann's Los Angeles Bar & Nightlife Guide'' (2001) is a guide to nightlife in Los Angeles.<ref name="GennGuide">{{cite news |last1=Genn |first1=Roman |title=Gallery; Barhopping in Hollywood with Nancy Rommelmann, author of 'Rommelmann's Los Angeles Bar & Nightlife Guide' |work=Los Angeles Times |date=4 July 2001}}</ref>
She also wrote ''Everything You Pretend to Know About Food And Are Afraid Someone Will Ask'' (1998)<ref>{{cite news |last1=McPherson |first1=Heather |title=2 Great Books That Don't Need to Use Name-calling (book review) |work=McPhersonReview |date=30 April 1998}}</ref>
==#MeNeither== Beginning in 2018, Rommelmann and columnist Leah McSweeney started the YouTube video series #MeNeither. The series discussed allegations against several prominent men during the #MeToo movement and questioned aspects of some accusations and media coverage.<ref name="wweek2019">{{cite news |last=Herron |first=Elise |date=January 10, 2019 |title=Portland Author and Wife of Ristretto Roasters Owner Sparks Controversy With YouTube Videos Discrediting Prominent Sexual Assault Survivors |work=Willamette Week}}</ref>
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