Meghan Daum founded The Unspeakeasy in 2022. Her weekly interview podcast, launched in 2020 as The Unspeakable, is now called The Unspeakeasy and has featured guests ranging from Sam Harris to Jonathan Haight to Maria Bamford to Moon Unit Zappa. The recent winner of the Tom Wolfe Prize for reportage, Meghan is the author of seven books, including The Catastrophe Hour, The Problem With Everything: My Journey Through the New Culture Wars, The Unspeakable: And Other Subjects Of Discussion, and My Misspent Youth.

Meghan has written for numerous magazines, including The New Yorker, The New York Times Magazine, The Atlantic, and Vogue, and was a Los Angeles Times opinion columnist for more than 12 years. She is the recipient of a 2015 Guggenheim Fellowship and a 2016 National Endowment for the Arts grant and has been on the adjunct faculty of the Writing Division at Columbia University’s School of the Arts. She also teaches private workshops in personal essay, memoir, and op-ed. You can also visit her author page at meghandaum.com.