Edward McPherson

is a writer at large for New York Magazine and a contributing editor at Elle. She is the author of the New York Times best-seller All the Single Ladies: Unmarried Women and the Rise of an Independent Nation (2016) and of Big Girls Don't Cry: The Election that Changed Everything for American Women, a New York Times Notable Book of 2010 and the winner of the Ernesta Drinker Ballard Book Prize. Traister writes about women in politics, media, and entertainment from a feminist perspective and has also written for the New Republic, Salon, the Nation, the Washington Post, and the New York Times Magazine.

is the author of two previous books: Buster Keaton: Tempest in a Flat Hat (Faber & Faber) and The Backwash Squeeze and Other Improbable Feats (HarperCollins). He has written for the New York Times Magazine, the Paris Review, Tin House, and the American Scholar, among others. He has received a Pushcart Prize, the Gulf Coast Prize in Fiction, a Minnesota State Arts Board grant, and the Gesell Award from the University of Minnesota, where he received his MFA. He teaches creative writing at Washington University in St. Louis.