Local author and professor in the MSU School of Journalism

Joe Grimm has been visiting editor in residence in the Journalism School at Michigan State University since 2008. Before that, he worked at the Detroit Free Press for 25 years. He has written or co-authored about 30 books. They include “Windjammers: Songs of the Great Lakes Sailors,” “Michigan Voices,” “The Faygo Book” and “Coney Detroit.” He has self-published books for journalism job hunters and has helped students at Michigan State publish more than 20 books. Most are in the Bias Busters series, which answers 100 common questions about different ethnic, racial, religious, gender, cultural or occupational groups.