Curtis Pesmen

urtis is a cancer survivor and author of seven nonfiction books, including The Colon Cancer Survivors’ Guide, How a Man Ages, and Your Prostate Cancer Survivors’ Guide.

He has written for Esquire, GQ, Money, Cure, and Outside magazines, as well as for The New York Times and CNN.com.

Formerly Chief of Research at Esquire and Health and Features Editor at SELF (creator of the pink ribbon breast cancer awareness campaign). In New York, he bicycle-commuted for 12 years in Manhattan, with only one taxi/bike collision embedded in his medical history.