About Cookie's Editor-in-Chief

Pilar Guzmán, 38, is the editor-in-chief of Cookie, Condé Nast’s family lifestyle magazine tailored to the sensibilities of parents with young children. Cookie is a one-stop source for busy yet discerning moms for advice on fashion, interiors, health, food, books, and travel, as well as first-person critique and commentary on the issues that matter most to mothers. Breaking the mold in the parenting category, Cookie gives moms permission to retain their “pre-motherhood” sense of style and adventure—as well as their intellectual curiosity.

Pilar has been editor-in-chief of Cookie since its inception in 2005. During her tenure, Cookie has been named Launch of the Year by Ad Age for 2007 and has been nominated two years in a row (2007 and 2008) for ASME’s prestigious General Excellence Award. Circulation for the magazine has increased by 43 percent.

Pilar describes Cookie as “the first lifestyle magazine for parents, which takes for granted that its readers want to be the best parents they can be. Cookie understands that its readers strive to give their children every enriching experience possible, that parents face tough decisions every day, and that the charge of raising healthy, confident, loving human beings is sometimes too monumental to grasp. But Cookie also recognizes that mothers struggle with preserving their identities and crave a connection to the world outside the home. With refreshing, off-with-the-kid-gloves honesty and humor, Cookie seeks to reassure parents that yes, it’s all normal, and ultimately that we are all in this together.”

Pilar was recently selected as one of the Crain’s “Top Forty Under 40 Class of 2008,” which recognizes rising stars in the corporate world, successful entrepreneurs, nonprofit leaders, and individuals who ply their talents in medicine, education, and the arts. She is interviewed extensively by national broadcast and print media and speaks on a variety of parenting-related topics across the country. Her recent appearance and interview credits include Good Morning America, Today, Entertainment Tonight, The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal, USA Today, and the Associated Press.

Before joining Cookie, Pilar served as a senior editor and writer at Real Simple, where she worked on everything from home and gardening to food and health stories. Prior to that, she was the executive editor of the influential One magazine. Pilar has also been a regular contributor for a number of different publications, including The New York Times House & Home and Dining sections, I.D., Metropolis, Wallpaper, and Marie Claire, and was the design and architecture editor and columnist at City magazine. Pilar got her journalistic start writing a travel guide to Italy for the Berkeley Guides, before working as a food critic and lifestyle writer for the New York Daily News. She graduated from U.C. Berkeley with degrees in English and Italian.

Pilar’s father is Claudio Guzmán, a director of sitcoms including The Flying Nun and I Dream of Jeannie; her mother is Anna Maria Alberghetti of the opera and musical-theater world.

She is married to Chris Mitchell, publisher of Details, and they have a four-year-old son, Henry, and a one-year-old son, Willem.