The author of five books, Meghan Daum was columnist for Medium from 2019 to 2021 an op-ed columnist for The Los Angeles Times from 2005 to 2016. Her latest book is The Problem With Everything: My Journey Through The New Culture Wars (Gallery Books, October 2019), which was a New York Times Notable Book and will be released in paperback in February 2022. Her previous book was The Unspeakable: And Other Subjects of Discussion (FSG 2014), which won the 2015 PEN Center USA Award for creative nonfiction.
Born in California, Meghan currently lives in New York City, where she offers private weekend-long workshops in personal essay and memoir out of her home and also occasionally in Los Angeles.
