Rebecca Traister is a writer at large for New York magazine and a National Magazine Award–winning journalist who has covered women, politics, media, and culture from a feminist perspective for more than two decades. She is the winner of the National Magazine Award for Columns and Commentary and the Hillman Prize for Opinion and Analysis Journalism. Her work has appeared in The New York Times, The Washington Post, The Nation, The New York Times Magazine, Vogue, Glamour, and Marie Claire. She is the author of the New York Times bestsellers Good and Mad and All the Single Ladies, as well as the award-winning Big Girls Don’t Cry. She lives in New York with her family.

Ruby Shamir is an award-winning author, a collaborator on bestsellers, an adaptor of adult nonfiction for children, and a literary researcher based in New York City. She has performed writing, editorial planning, editing, adaptations, and research for many high-profile nonfiction bestsellers. Her work has been reviewed as “lyrical,” “eloquent,” “beautifully written,” and “brilliant.” Her professional experience includes working for three and a half years in the Clinton White House and later leading Hillary Rodham Clinton’s New York Senate office. She got her MBA from the Zicklin School of Business at Baruch College and her BA from Bates College.