Rebecca E. Traister

Traister serves as a writer-at-large at New York magazine and The Cut, and she is a contributing editor at Elle magazine. She has covered women in politics, media and entertainment for over a decade, and received critical acclaim for her book Big Girls Don't Cry (2010) a New York Times Notable Book of 2010 and winner of the Ernesta Drinker Ballard Book Prize.. Traister was a senior editor at the New Republic, and worked as a senior writer at Salon from 2003 to 2010. Traister's work is notable for its sharply intelligent analysis of feminism and its evolution in politics, media, entertainment, and society at large. She has contributed to The New York Times Magazine, The Los Angeles Times, The Nation, The Washington Post, Slate, Marie Claire, Glamour.