Writer’s Forum: Rebecca Traister

Rebecca Traister is a writer at large for New York Magazine. Winner of the National Magazine Award for Commentary and the Sidney Hillman Prize for Opinion & Analysis, she has covered women in politics, media, and entertainment from a feminist perspective for The New Republic, Elle, and Salon and has also contributed to The Nation, The New York Times, and The Washington Post. Traister’s first book, Big Girls Don’t Cry, about women and the 2008 election, was a New York Times Notable Book of 2010 and the winner of the Ernesta Drinker Ballard Book Prize. All The Single Ladies, about unmarried women in America, was a New York Times bestseller and a Times Notable book of 2016. Her third book, Good and Mad, about women’s anger as a political force, will be published in October.