Jill Miller Zimon is an award-winning freelance writer, blogger and political commentator. She has provided on-air analysis for Cleveland public radio and television, CNN, BBC and other broadcast outlets. You can listen to or watch selections of her appearances here. She was a board member of the Society of Professional Journalists Cleveland Pro Chapter in 2007 and presented at SPJ's national conference in 2005.

Zimon started her blog, Writes Like She Talks, in 2005. In Fall 2007, she joined the Plain Dealer/cleveland.com blog experiment, Wide Open. It was the first paid collaboration between a traditional newspaper and independent political bloggers in the country. The quality of her online and offline writing has been recognized with numerous awards and most recently, she was named to WE Magazine’s list of 101 Women Bloggers to Watch This Fall. Her other blogging work includes being a Contributing Editor for BlogHer.com's Election 2008 coverage and she has co-edited the Carnival of Ohio Blogs since 2007 on a voluntary basis.

Zimon is a frequent conference presenter and article interviewee on the topics of politics, blogging, new media, technology, leadership and the role of women in each of those areas. For example, she addressed the 2007 American Association of Political Consultants Academic Outreach Conference as a keynote panelist on the subject of media and politics. In 2007, Zimon covered the Cleveland Democratic Primary Debate, Women, Action and the Media (WAM!2008) conference at MIT, the First Ladies Symposium on media coverage of presidential candidates' spouses, and spoke at Case Western Reserve University's Collaboration Technologies workshop, the Hispanic Chamber of Commerce's 2008 Annual Ohio Business Women's Conference and Expo, BlogHer08 and the White House Project's first Go Run! training in Ohio, which she also attended as a trainee.

Zimon grew up in New England. She earned a joint bachelors degree in government and sociology from Georgetown University and a joint degree in law and social work from Case Western Reserve University. From 1984-1985, she lived in Israel as part of a volunteer program through which she taught English in Bet Shemesh and lived on a kibbutz for several weeks. She conducted or managed research in the Yale Development Office for three years, before moving to Ohio. After graduate school, and for eight years prior to launching her journalism career, Zimon used her law and social work licenses at a large children and family mental health agency. She has lived in the Cleveland suburbs for nearly 20 years.