ABOUT MEGHAN

Meghan Daum founded The Unspeakeasy in 2022. She is the host of The Unspeakable Podcast and runs The Unspeakable with Meghan Daum on Substack. She is the author of seven books, most recently The Catastrophe Hour. Her collection of original essays, The Unspeakable: And Other Subjects of Discussion, won the 2015 Pen Center USA Award for creative nonfiction.

A Los Angeles Times opinion columnist from 2005 to 2016, she has written for numerous magazines, including The New Yorker, The New York Times Magazine, The Atlantic, and Vogue. Meghan is the recipient of a 2015 Guggenheim Fellowship and a 2016 National Endowment for the Arts grant. She has been on the adjunct faculty of the Writing Division at Columbia University’s School of the Arts and also teaches private workshops in personal essay, memoir, and op-ed.

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Listen to Meghan’s  audio essays on the Los Angeles fires