Maria Goodavage is the news editor and a featured writer at Say Media’s Dogster.com. She has been a reporter for USA Today and the San Francisco Chronicle, and is a founding editor of a national guidebook series for dogs, and author of The Dog Lover’s Companion to California and The Dog Lover’s Companion to the San Francisco Bay Area.
Goodavage has had a longstanding passion for the dogs of war, which started when her dad – also an author – used to tell her about the stray pups (and wayward monkey) he took in while overseas in World War II, and about the military dogs who helped save lives – and sometimes soldiers’ sanity.
She lives in San Francisco with her husband, daughter, and affable Labrador retriever.
