Meghan Daum

Meghan Daum is the author of five books, including The Problem With Everything and The Unspeakable. She is also the editor of the bestselling anthology Selfish, Shallow and Self Absorbed: Sixteen Writers on the Decision Not to Have Kids. The recipient of a Guggenheim Fellowship and a National Endowment for the Arts grant, Meghan has written for numerous magazines, including the New Yorker, the New York Times magazine and the Atlantic, and she was a Los Angeles Times opinion columnist for more than a decade. In 2020, Meghan launched a weekly interview podcast, The Unspeakable that now has 200+ episodes and millions of downloads. Her latest collection of essays, The Catastrophe Hour, won the Inaugural Airmail Tom Wolfe Prize for Reportage 2025. She lives in Los Angeles.