Warren Florence has been published in a number of magazine genres ranging from sports to travel, food to lifestyle. He began his professional writing and editing career in New York City as the editor-in-chief of Tennis Industry magazine. He's also contributed frequently to TENNIS, where many feature articles and current contributions to "Tip of the Week" can be found on the magazine's website, TENNIS.com. Adding to things you swing, he's edited for Maximum Golf, published articles in Squash and USTA, worked as a playing/technical consultant for Tyco commercials (which aired during the 1999 U.S. Open), and was interviewed for the feature-length documentary "She Got Game: Behind-the-Scenes of the Women's Tennis Tour."

 

While in New York, Florence knotted together his University of Wyoming (BA in Journalism, 1997) years of high peaks and vast plateaus with people-intense city life to write urban and adventure travel for the internationally franchised WHERE New York (kayak Manhattan!), and independent publisher Blue (hike Kilimanjaro!).

 

Nurturing a flair for travel journalism, Florence's articles have recently appeared among the beautiful pages of Coastal Living. Since 2001, he's contributed to his home state's tourism travel magazine South Carolina Smiles, South Carolina Magazine and to WHERE Charleston, in which he writes food and restaurant reviews. (The "foodie" gene, though intense, is more obvious through his younger brother Tyler Florence, host of Food Network's "Food 911", "Tyler's Ultimate" and "How to Boil Water.")

 

Warren Florence teaches creative writing and continues to explore a wide range of writing styles and outlets. He's reviewed movies for newspapers, written television show treatments for Automatic (a subsidiary of Sony), and created a teleplay for the marketing division of Conde' Nast. He's published columns, poems, marketing copy, and is currently editing both his first novel, "Secret Walking," and a collection of personal essays.

 

He frequently travels between New York City and his home in Beaufort, S.C.