Lauren Mechling is a senior editor at the Guardian US and has written for the New York Times, the Wall Street Journal, Slate, the New Yorker online, and Vogue, where she wrote a regular book column. She's worked as a crime reporter and metro columnist for the New York Sun and as features editor at the Wall Street Journal. A dual Canadian and American citizen, she got her start in newspaper reporting at a Toronto daily, where she worked for several years in her twenties.
She lives in Brooklyn, New York, with her husband and two children.
Laura Moser grew up in Houston, Texas. She is the author of a biography of Bette Davis and reviews books for various publications.