Michelle Vuckovich

Michelle Vuckovich
Professional Information
Occupations	Formerly: editor

Michelle Vuckovich, once called Jill-of-all-Trades, is a former assistant editor, and later, editor of the Dragon and Dungeon magazines, as well as several Dungeons & Dragons products, including The North: Guide to the Savage Frontier and Demihumans of the Realms.

Biography

Michelle resides in San Francisco, CA and has over twenty years of experience working on such entertainment formats as magazines, books, tabletop RPG sourcebooks, video games, multimedia museum tours. Among well known companies she's worked with are TSR, Wizards of the Coast, Nickelodeon, Zynga, Sega, Lucasfilm, Google.

Michelle joined TSR in 1995. She worked for TSR's Periodicals Department as an editorial assistant on Dragon Magazine issues 215 through 223. As of issue 218, Michelle started being credited for writing Dragon's Rumblings section dedicated to industry news, internal staff updates, as well as other updates. And she headlined Women on the Verge editorial in issue 216 dedicated to women in gaming. She also worked as an editorial assistant for Dungeon Magazine starting with issue 52 and through 56. As of Dragon Magazine 224, and Dungeon 56, Michelle received credits as an associate editor. She was promoted to the editor of Dungeon starting with issue 61 in 1996 and continued her indispensable work until Dragon issue 240 in 1997, in which editor Dave Gross announced Michelle's discussion to leave TSR, who was planning to resume her education – Master's degree. In an editorial message in Dungeon 65, Christopher Perkins jokingly claimed that he has banished Michelle from gaming industry for criticizing the monstrous length of his published adventures. During her time with TSR, Michelle also lended her editor's skills to Dragonlance Classics: 15^th Anniversary Edition, The Shattered Circle, as well as two Forgotten Realms sourcebooks.

Since leaving TSR, Michelle worked as an editor for Lucasfilm, notably editing the Power of the Jedi Sourcebook, the Ultimate Adversaries sourcebook, and The Official Star Wars Fact File issues 81 through 93. She departed Lucasfilm in 2003.

She currently works as a senior games product specialist for Google in San Francisco.

Apart from working in gaming, tabletop, and editing, Michelle's name popped up in San Francisco Chronicle news in 2007 when it was reported that her car received 29 tickets from the city's meter maids after it was stolen. After receiving the tickets through mail, Michelle contacted the police only to be faced with disinterest and not willingness to take action. She set out to track the car herself through the meter maid tickets, finding just two blocks away from a police station.