Joe Kolman has been a financial writer for more than two decades. He began his career in 1983 as an associate editor at Institutional Investor magazine. In 1992, he started Derivatives Strategy, a publication that explained the nascent market in over-the-counter derivatives in plain English. The publication quickly became the leading magazine covering the U.S. derivatives market.

In 2005, he became a vice president at AllianceBernstein, where he is a senior writer in the firm's mutual fund division. His writing has appeared in more than a dozen financial publications.

He has a BA from Reed College and an MFA in fiction from Cornell University. He has been a fellow at the MacDowell Colony in Peterborough, NH.