Dennie Hughes, USA WEEKEND Magazine's contributing editor and RelationTips writer, is a respected, award-winning columnist who has built a career dispensing personal advice with professional expertise. She combines common sense with the most up-to-date information on topics that readers care about, and doesn't hesitate to tackle tough issues.

Before joining USA WEEKEND as a contributing editor, Hughes wrote the Ask Anything column for React magazine and react.com for teens, as well as the Romance column for YM magazine. Hughes also co-hosted the Cupid's Corner segment on Studio Y (a television show on New York's Metro Channel), where she dispensed dating and relationship information live, on-air, to young adults who called in from the Tri-State area.

Dennie has been a consultant for Match.com, an AOL Love Coach and is currently "On Demand" for Comcast.com. She is also Classmates.com's resident relationship expert.

Dennie is a winner of several editorial excellence awards, including two National Health Information Awards, a National Educational Press Award, and the American Academy of Dermatology's Golden Triangle Award. She has appeared on many national news programs, including The Today Show, Rachael Ray, Good Morning America, The View, CNN’S American Morning, FOX News Channel, The CBS Early Show, EXTRA! and VH-1’s “All Access” as well as various radio shows, television talk shows and local news segments.

Dennie's first book, DateWorthy, was published by Rodale Press in November, 2004. She shares her happily-ever-after with a very tall husband and a very small dog who adopted them from the Humane Society.