Meghan Daum

Meghan Daum is the author of five books, including The Problem With Everything: My Journey Through the New Culture Wars and The Unspeakable: And Other Subjects of Discussion, which won the 2015 Pen Centre USA Award for creative non-fiction. She is also the editor of the bestselling anthology Selfish, Shallow and Self-Absorbed: Sixteen Writers on the Decision Not to Have Kids. The recipient of a Guggenheim Fellowship and a National Endowment for the Arts grant, Meghan  Daum has written for numerous magazines, including the New Yorker, The New York Times magazine and the Atlantic, and she was a Los Angeles Times opinion columnist for more than a decade. In 2020, Meghan launched a weekly interview podcast, The Unspeakable, and in 2022 she founded The Unspeakeasy, a multi-tiered platform devoted to fostering free speech and viewpoint diversity among women. She lives in Los Angeles.

Books by this author:
The Catastrophe Hour: Selected Essays
The Catastrophe Hour: Selected Essays