Whitney M. Fishburn is a veteran, award-winning journalist and editor who has covered the arts and sciences at home and abroad for more than 30 years. Many of her hundreds of bylines are under her previous, unmarried name, McKnight. A member of the Music Critics Association of North America, her musical passions are opera, the American Songbook, and honky-tonk. She publishes "docu-mental: mapping the (new) american states of mind" at http://documental.substack.com