Hey, I'm Amanda

Amanda Montell is a 27-year-old writer and reporter from Baltimore whose writing has been featured in Marie Claire, TIME, Cosmopolitan, Nylon, Woman's Day, The Rumpus, Byrdie.com, and WhoWhatWear, where she is the staff features editor. Amanda is the author of the nonfiction book Wordslut: A Feminist Guide to Taking Back the English Language (Harper Wave, 2019), which reviews and public figures have praised for being "smart and freakishly entertaining," "sharp and provocative but also funny and accessible," and "Just the kind of sharp, relevant scholarship needed to continue to inspire the next generation of feminist thought." Amanda graduated from NYU with a degree in linguistics. She lives in Los Angeles. Find her on Instagram @amanda_montell.