Steve Hawk is a staff writer on John From Cincinnati. Hawk is a former editor of Surfer magazine, and his credentials as a surfing expert are crucial to the show: "It’s a really big priority for everyone that we make this show credible to surfers," he told Surfing Magazine in March 2007. "That's one of the reasons they brought me on to write and the Fletchers as consultants, and why they're using all these other key surf figures."