Meredith Talusan is the author of the critically-acclaimed memoir Fairest from Viking/Penguin Random House, a Lambda Literary Award Finalist and best book of 2020 by multiple venues, including O: The Oprah Magazine, Marie-Claire, Electric Literature, and Library Journal. Her essays and fiction have appeared or are forthcoming in The Guardian, The New York Times, The Atlantic, WIRED, Boston Review, and Guernica, among many other publications, and she has contributed to several books. She is also the founding executive editor of them., Condé Nast's LGBTQ+ digital platform, where she is currently contributing editor.