Cheryl Della Pietra

Author, Gonzo Girl

Cheryl Della Pietra is a New York City magazine editor, writer, and copy editor. She has published numerous stories in such magazines as \_Marie Claire\_, \_Redbook\_, and \_POV Magazine\_. After graduating from the University of Pennsylvania, she lived with Hunter S. Thompson in Woody Creek, Colorado, for several months in 1992 while she worked as his assistant. She wrote \_Gonzo Girl\_ (2015) as a fictionalized account of her experiences as Thompson's assistant.