Laura Bates is the Founder of the Everyday Sexism Project and writes regularly for the New York Times, the Guardian, the Telegraph, and many other news outlets. She is a regular contributor to the Today Programme, Woman’s Hour, Channel 4 News, Newsnight, and more, as well as working closely with politicians, businesses, schools, police forces, and organizations from the Council of Europe to the United Nations. She has been awarded a British Empire Medal in the Queen’s Honours List for services to gender equality.
Her critically acclaimed and award-winning nonfiction for adults includes Everyday Sexism, Misogynation, Girl, Up, and Men Who Hate Women. Her first YA novel for teens, The Burning, was declared “a haunting rallying cry against sexism” by Kirkus Reviews and nominated for the Carnegie Medal.