Scenic landscape of a mountain range with a lake in the foreground, grassy fields, and cloudy sky.

Lauren Mechling

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, a young adult novelist, and a features editor at The Wall Street Journal. A graduate of Harvard College, she lives in Brooklyn with her husband and two children. Her latest novel, The Memo, co-written with Rachel Dodes, was published in 2024 and optioned for television by Lean Machine and WIIP.