About the Editor
LAURA BARCELLA is a writer and editor who is perpetually trying to decide between San Francisco and New York. She has written about pop culture, feminism, and lifestyles for more than forty publications, including the Village Voice, Salon, Time Out New York, ELLEGirl, BUST, NYLON, AlterNet, and the Chicago Sun-Times. She’s also the author of The End: 50 Apocalytic Visions From Pop Culture That You Should Know About . . . Before It’s Too Late, a teen pop-culture book about the apocalypse (Zest Books, 2012), and has contributed to the anthologies BITCHFest: Ten Years of Cultural Criticism From the Pages of Bitch Magazine , Somebody’s Child: Stories About Adoption, and the forthcoming It’s All In Her Head: Women Making Peace With Troubled Minds.
In addition to being a longtime word nerd, Laura has been obsessed with Madonna since she was six. As a kid, Laura had Madge-themed birthday parties with decorate-your-own-T-shirt puffy-paint stations. She has also bought almost every album Madonna’s ever made, despite her college-honed gravitation toward mopey indie rock.
