The Sager Group was founded in 1984 by the journalist and author Mike Sager. In 2012 it was chartered as a multi-media content brand, with the intent of empowering those who create—an umbrella beneath which makers can pursue, and profit from, their craft directly, without gatekeepers. TSG publishes books and eBooks; ministers to artists and provides modest grants; designs products; and produces and distributes documentary, narrative and commercial films, and music videos. By harnessing the means of production, The Sager Group helps artists help themselves. TSG is a member in good standing of the Independent Book Publishers Association.

Leorah Gavidor is TSG'S Assistant Managing Editor. She wrote her first essay at age seven and knew she had found her medium. She currently writes news and features for local publications, and her work has appeared in the Seattle Weekly, San Diego Home and Garden, the UCSD Guardian, the San Diego Reader, and the San Diego Jewish Journal. Her gift for catching grammar gremlins and pesky typos accompanies formal training as an MFA in Writing at Goddard College in Vermont, where she served as editor of Pitkin in Progress. She lives with her husband in San Diego.

Tish Hamilton is TSG's Chief Copy Editor, a writer, editor, and professor who started at the bottom of the editorial ladder and rose to top positions at legacy media publications including Rolling Stone, Outside, the New York Daily News, Sports Illustrated Women, and Runner's World, where she edited the work of award-winning writers as well as contributed her own feature stories. For more than a decade, she also taught Magazine Editing and Management for New York University's Master of Publishing program, before moving to Georgia, where she now teaches creative nonfiction writing at Savannah College of Art and Design. She received her BA in English from Barnard College, where her daughter is currently enrolled, and her MFA in creative writing from Fairleigh Dickinson University. 

Jean McDonald is TSG's Senior Copy Editor. She recently retired after a long career teaching copy editing, reporting, multimedia, and sports journalism at the University of Illinois’ College of Media. Previously, she was sports editor, sports writer, and director of electronic publishing and information systems at The News-Gazette in Champaign, Ill.

Lauren Spencer is TSG's Copy Editor-at-Large. She has worked in publishing for over 20 years, starting her career as a copy editor at Rolling Stone magazine in the early 1990s, then moving on to a senior editor/writer position at Spin magazine from 1991 to 1994. After taking a brief detour away from publishing to work as VP of video promotion at Elektra Records and to teach writing workshops in New York City public schools, Lauren returned to magazines in 2007, becoming a deputy copy editor at SELF magazine, then moving on to Hearst Publications where she became copy editor and subsequently assistant managing editor at Woman’s Day magazine, then branching out into freelancing at Condé Nast, Meredith, and Rodale publications. She’s written a series of instructional and informational books for middle-school students for Rosen Publishing and a music book, Bush: On the Road, for MTV Books/Pocket Books. Currently, she's copyediting for various outlets and teaching Copyediting for Digital and Print Media for New York University's School of Professional Studies.

Chief Proofreader Kevin Shlosberg, an inveterate bibliophile, comes to us with over 20 years in the book world; the last 10 of which have been in digital publishing at Smashwords.  He currently divides his time between The Sager Group and a revered antiquarian bookstore in Palo Alto, C.A.  Once upon a time, he earned a BA from Rutgers University, with a concentration in English/Creative Writing.  These days, when not studying for a Masters's degree in Information and Library Science, he can be found weeding invasive species at his local open space preserve.

Assistant Chief Proofreader Brendan O'Meara is an author, journalist, and host/founder of The Creative Nonfiction Podcast, wherein he speaks to badass people about the art and craft of telling true stories. He's spoken with Laura Hillenbrand, Susan Orlean, David Grann, Patrick Radden Keefe, Mitchell S. Jackson, Andre Dubus III, Mike Sager, and many others. Brendan is the author of Six Weeks in Saratoga: How Rachel Alexandra Beat the Boys and Became Horse of the Year, and in 2025, he's publishing a new, fresh biography on the iconic Oregon runner Steve Prefontaine titled The Front Runner (Mariner Books). Brendan's work has appeared on Longreads, Trail Runner Magazine, Writer's Digest, among others. He lives in western Oregon. 

Proofreader, Copy Editor, and Researcher Ciela Courtright is a writer and researcher now based in San Diego County after eleven years spent between Rome, Italy and Dublin, Ireland. Ciela has always had a love for the craft of editing and the art of storytelling. She is a graduate of Trinity College, Dublin, where she earned a joint honours BA in English and History.

Andrew Mayer is a veteran of newspaper, magazine, and book publishing. For nearly four decades he was chief night librarian at the Washington Post, contributing research and support for major breaking and ongoing news stories, from Watergate through the first Gulf War. Following that, he has worked as the editor/head librarian of the New York Law Publishing Company, and as an editorial researcher for US Weekly and Conde Nast Traveler. In addition, he is a teacher and tutor, and a reader for the College Board. He has edited and researched books on former vice president Spiro Agnew, the 1967 Middle East War, and the French perfume industry. He lives in Staten Island, N.Y., with his wife, a clinical social worker, and his son, who is an actor and a musician.

Anna Fiorino is a reporter and copyeditor based in Alexandria, Virginia. Her work has appeared in US News and World Report, San Diego CityBeat, the San Diego Union-Tribune, the Colorado Springs Business Journal, and the Colorado Springs Independent. She has a professional copy-editing certificate from UC San Diego and a journalism degree from San Diego State University.

Arthur Jay Harris is an author of investigative true crime and comedy. (Both employ the elements of surprise.) He and his work have been featured on ABC Primetime, Anderson Cooper 360, A&E’s City Confidential.

Tanya Huang is a Phi Beta Kappa graduate of San Diego State University. She has been published in San Diego Magazine, Riviera, East County Magazine, SanDiego.com, Brick Road Magazine and The Daily Aztec. She lives in San Diego where she’s pursuing a career in journalism and marketing.

Bruce Kluger is a writer, editor, columnist, author, commentator and television correspondent (as well as a former TV and movie actor and Broadway playwright). Also a graphic artist, he created the logo for The Sager Group. Kluger first met Sager at Wellwood Elementary School in Baltimore, MD; they were also bunkmates at Camp Comet, in rural Pennsylvania. Kluger lives in Manhattan with his wife and two daughters.

Jamie Ballard is an award-winning journalist and editor, currently based in San Diego. She works as a staff writer for San Diego CityBeat, where she covers the city’s ongoing homeless crisis and other local issues. Her work has also appeared in Esquire, Voice of San Diego, The Daily Aztec, Transitions Abroad, Modern Luxury San Diego, the Sonoma Index-Tribune and others. Her reporting on Syrian refugees in Istanbul received a first-place recognition from the Society of Professional Journalists.

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