J.D Biersdorfer is the author of iPod: The Missing Manual and The iPod Shuffle Fan Book, and is co-author of The Internet: The Missing Manual and the second edition of Google: The Missing Manual. She has been writing the weekly computer Q&A column for the Circuits section of The New York Times since 1998 and has covered everything from 17th-century Indian art to the world of female hackers for the newspaper.

She currently co-hosts the weekly NYT Tech Talk podcast and has written for Rolling Stone, The New York Times Book Review and the AIGA Journal of Graphic Design. Biersdorfer has written essays on the collision of pop culture and technology for the books "The Education of the E-Designer" (2001) and "Sex Appeal "(2000), and "Citizen Designer" (2003) from Allworth Press, and is a contributor to "The Enlightened Bracketologist: The Final Four of Everything" (Bloomsbury USA, 2007). She lives in New York City and is equally obsessed with the BBC and the banjo.