Meghan Daum

(TWH “Mini MFA” 2022: Nonfiction Craft Lab)

Meghan Daum is the author of five books, including The Problem With Everything: My Journey Through The New Culture Wars, which The New York Times named a Notable Book of 2019. Her last book was the collection of original essays The Unspeakable: And Other Subjects of Discussion, which won the 2015 PEN Center USA Award for creative nonfiction. She is also the editor of the New York Times bestseller Selfish, Shallow & Self-Absorbed: Sixteen Writers on the Decision Not To Have Kids. Her other books include the essay collection My Misspent Youth, the novel The Quality of Life Report, and Life Would Be Perfect If I Lived In That House, a memoir.

Meghan was a columnist for Medium’s GEN Magazine from 2018 to 2020 and wrote a weekly blog for Medium until early 2021. For more than a decade, she was an opinion columnist for The Los Angeles Times. Her work has also appeared in numerous publications, including The New Yorker, The New York Times Magazine, The Atlantic, and Vogue. She is an adjunct associate professor in the Graduate Writing Program at Columbia University’s School of the Arts, where she was once a student herself.

Meghan is the creator and host of The Unspeakable Podcast, an weekly interview program wherein she talks with authors, scholars, scientists, philosophers, entertainers and others about “taboo” topics that nonetheless must be discussed if society is going to move forward. (In her opinion.)