Abby Ellin

Abby Ellin is an award-winning journalist and the author of Duped: Double Lives, False Identities and the Con Man I Almost Married and Teenage Waistland: A Former Fat Kid Weighs In On Living Large, Losing Weight and How Parents Can (and Can't) Help. For five years she wrote the "Preludes" column about young people and money for the Sunday Money and Business section of the New York Times. She is also a regular contributor to the Health, Style, Business and Education sections of the New York Times. Her work has been published in The New York Times Magazine, New York, the Wall Street Journal, the Los Angeles Times Magazine, Psychology Today, Salon, Marie Claire, and Spy (RIP). She has been a resident at Yaddo and Wildacres Retreat in North Carolina, and holds an MFA in creative writing from Emerson College and a master's degree in international public policy from Johns Hopkins University. As of this writing, her greatest accomplishments are summiting Kilimanjaro (with a broken wrist!) and naming "Karamel Sutra" ice cream for Ben and Jerry's.