Loren Steffy has been a writer-at-large for Texas Monthly since 2013. In 2020, he founded Stoney Creek Publishing Group, an independent publisher that focuses on Texas narratives. He is also a managing director for 30 Point Strategies, where he heads the 30 Point Press publishing imprint. Steffy is the former business columnist for the Houston Chronicle and previously was the Texas bureau chief and a senior writer for Bloomberg News. His award-winning writing has been published in newspapers and other publications worldwide. He has a bachelor's degree in journalism from Texas A&M University. If he's not writing or reading, he's probably working on cars or puttering (yes, he has reached the age of puttering) around his property in Wimberley, where he lives with his wife and two rescue dogs.