Girl Land
Caitlin Flanagan is a former high school teacher who became a writer; she has been on staff atThe Atlantic,The New Yorker, and theWall Street Journal. A winner of the National Magazine Award, she has also written forTime,O, The Oprah Magazine, theNew York Times, and theLos Angeles Times. Her work has been widely anthologized in, among other publications,The Best American EssaysandThe Best American Magazine Writingseries. She lives in Los Angeles with her husband and two sons.