Teena Apeles is a writer and editor who enjoys covering subcultures and unsung heroes, but she has also written extensively on art, film, design, lifestyles, fashion, history and travel. She has contributed to several publications and websites, including AskMen.com, Audrey, BUST, Giant Robot, Helio, LA Weekly, Los Angeles Metromix, make/shift, Pasadena Weekly, SOMA and Toyota's The Director's Chair. Apeles has interviewed more than 200 people over her career, from renowned chef Joachim Splichal and artist Mark Ryden to writer Joy Kogawa and Oscar winner Christoph Waltz.

She is the author of the nonfiction book Women Warriors: Adventures from History’s Greatest Female Fighters (Seal Press, 2004), which features women warriors of ancient mythology as well as modern women who grace today’s playing fields, screens, comic books and political arenas. Her work has also appeared in the anthologies DIRT: The Quirks, Habits and Passions of Keeping House (Seal Press, 2009), Father Poems (Anvil, 2004), Bare Your Soul: The Thinking Girl’s Guide to Enlightenment (Seal Press, 2002) and Geography of Rage: Remembering the Los Angeles Riots of 1992 (Really Great Books, 2002).

As an editor, Apeles has worked for PBS station KCET, book publishers TASCHEN and Design Studio Press, literary organization PEN Center USA, arts magazine SOMA, apparel brands Freshjive and DC Shoes and the City of Lakewood. She has also done copywriting for gift company Knock Knock, ad agency Vectorandshift and online retailer MyShape. She is especially proud of publishing the unique collection The Deck of Chance (Spin the Wheel Press, 1999), which she edited with writer Andrea Richards. Praised by Art on Paper magazine as “urban impressionism,” the deck of playing cards explores accident, fortune, luck and the haphazard through poetry, short stories, commentary and artwork by 34 emerging writers and artists.

Apeles is currently working on a graphic novel set in Los Angeles’s gritty MacArthur Park and a children’s book set in a wondrous place where hair, or the lack thereof, brings people together.

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