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ARIEL LEVY has been a staff writer at The New Yorker magazine since 2008. There, she has profiled Edith Windsor, the plaintiff in the Supreme Court case that brought down the Defense of Marriage Act, Diana Nyad, who became the first person to swim from Cuba to Florida at the age of sixty-four, and Caster Semenya, the South African runner who wn the World Championship when she was seventeen, and forced the International Association of Athletics Federations to reexamine its definition of "female." Levy received the National Magazine Award for Essays and Criticism for her piece "Thanksgiving in Mongolia," which she is expanding into a book for Random House. She was the guest editor of the anthology The Best American Essays of 2015 and is the author of Female Chauvinist Pigs: Women and the Rise of Raunch Culture. She teaches writing at Wesleyan University, where she is the Koeppel Journalism Fellow.