Lindy West

Lindy West is the author of The New York Times bestselling memoir Shrill: Notes From a Loud Woman and the essay collections Shit, Actually and The Witches Are Coming. She is co-host of the NPR podcast Text Me Back. Her work has also appeared on This American Life and in The New York Times, The Guardian, Cosmopolitan, GQ, Vulture, Jezebel, and others. West was a writer and executive producer on Shrill, the Hulu comedy adapted from her memoir, and co-wrote the independent feature film Thin Skin. She is the co-founder of the reproductive-rights destigmatization campaign #ShoutYourAbortion, and writes a newsletter called “Butt News.”