Nancy Rommelmann's articles and profiles have appeared in the New York Times Magazine, the LA Weekly, the Los Angeles Times, Reason, and other publications. Recently, Rommelmann has taken to chronicling people whose outsize dreams and delusions inspire them to audacious and sometimes terrible acts: a mother with Munchausen Syndrome by Proxy who murdered her fourteen-year-old daughter before herself committing suicide (Sacrificing Rebecca); the writer Laura Albert, who perpetrated a ten-year con by writing as a teenage boy, the demimonde darling JT LeRoy (No Exit Plan), and Amanda Stott-Smith, who on May 23, 2009 forced her two young children off a bridge in Portland, Oregon. Rommelmann's Op-Ed pieces and book reviews appear in the Oregonian newspaper. She is also a contributor to the media website LA Observed. Rommelmann's work received Best Arts Feature 2009 for "No Exit Plan," from the Association of Alternative Newsweeklies (AAN), as well as Best Entertainment Arts Feature 2009 from the Los Angeles Press Club. Jena at 15, an LA Weekly feature about the actress Jena Malone's bid for emancipation from her mother, received the identical awards in 2001. Rommelmann's food writing appears in Bon Appetit magazine. She has worked as a restaurant reviewer for the LA Weekly and Willamette Week, and as a food columnist for many publications and websites, including Portland Monthly, MIX (the food magazine of the Oregonian) and Pajamas Media. In 2002, she shared an AAN award, for food coverage, with Pulitzer Prize-winning food writer Jonathan Gold. Rommelmann is the author of five books, including The Real Real World (with Hillary Johnson), which spent fourteen weeks on the New York Times bestseller list, and Everything You Pretend to Know about Food. She is currently at work on the true crime narrative, On the Bridge, a Meditation on Murder and the Case of Amanda Stott-Smith.