Pogash’s groundbreaking stories profile mayors, murderers and a homeless woman who crossed paths with a rising political star. Pogash has written about tech-fueled gentrification, loving Yosemite’s giant sequoias to death, Christmas day drones, a Golden Gate Bridge suicide barrier, and earthquake retrofits that won’t survive the Big One.

Carol Pogash is the author of three books. As Real As It Gets: The Life of a Hospital at the Center of the AIDS Epidemic, with an introduction by Randy Shilts, describes what happened when blood suddenly became a toxin. In Seduced by Madness: The True Story of the Susan Polk Murder Case, Pogash scrutinized the philosophy of radical psychotherapists, through the story of Susan Polk, who was 15 when she visited her therapist, 24 when she married him and 44 when she killed him. Pogash’s Quotations from Chairman Trump was the first book to call attention to the candidate’s quotes and tweets. The book, which has gone into its fourth printing, was an early warning of what could result from a Trump presidency.