Lauren Sandler

Lauren Sandler is an award-winning journalist. She is the bestselling author of One and Only: The Freedom of Having an Only Child, and the Joy of Being One, Righteous: Dispatches from the Evangelical Youth Movement, and This Is All I Got: A New Mother's Search for Home. Her essays and features have appeared in dozens of publications, including Time, the New York Times, Slate, the Atlantic, the Nation, the New Republic, the Guardian, and New York. Sandler has led the OpEd Project's Public Voices Fellowships at Yale, Columbia, and Dartmouth and has taught in the graduate journalism program at New York University, where she has also been a visiting scholar. Recently, she has been a Poynter Fellow at Yale and a Calderwood Fellow at MacDowell. She lives in Brooklyn.