Annie Zaleski

Annie Zaleski is a Cleveland, Ohio-based author, journalist, and editor. I’m an award-winning writer with profiles, interviews, and criticism in a variety of publications. Bylines include Rolling Stone, NPR Music, The Guardian, Salon, Time, Billboard, The A.V. Club, Vulture, The Los Angeles Times, Stereogum, Cleveland Plain Dealer, and Las Vegas Weekly. I also contributed liner notes to the 2016 reissue of R.E.M.’s 'Out of Time' and Game Theory’s 2020 collection 'Across The Barrier Of Sound: PostScript.' Released in 2021, her 33 1/3 volume on Duran Duran's 'Rio' is built around extensive original reporting, including interviews she conducted with band members and others involved with the success of the album.