Bio
Melissa Gira Grant a writer and freelance journalist covering sex, tech, and politics, in the streets and everywhere else. Her latest book, Playing the Whore: The Work of Sex Work (Verso, 2014) challenges the myths about selling sex and those who perpetuate them. Her reporting and commentary appears in The Nation, The New York Times, Wired,The Atlantic, Dissent, Glamour, and The Guardian, among other publications. She lives in New York.