Amanda Montei is the author, most recently, of Touched Out: Motherhood, Misogyny, Consent, & Control. Her writing has appeared in The New York Times, The Guardian, ELLE, TIME, The Cut, Mother Tongue, Slate, Electric Literature, Vox, The Rumpus, Salon, The Believer, Ms. Magazine, Poetry Foundation, and in numerous literary journals. She was a 2020 Best American Essays notable. Amanda has been teaching writing for over a decade. She has taught, lectured, and presented work at universities around the country, including Stanford University, Columbia University, New York University, The University of Chicago, and the University of California, Berkeley. She has also taught with many literary organizations such as Catapult, Corporeal Writing, Hugo House, Writing Workshops, and Write or Die. She holds an MFA in Writing from California Institute of the Arts and a PhD in English literature from SUNY at Buffalo. She runs the popular newsletter Mad Woman and lives in California.