Emily Bazelon is a staff writer at the New York Times Magazine, the Truman Capote Fellow for Creative Writing and Law at Yale Law School, and a co-host of Slate’s Political Gabfest, a popular weekly podcast. She writes frequently about the intersection between law and pressing social issues, including free speech, reproductive rights, the Supreme Court, and federal and state government. She is the author of two national bestsellers published by Penguin Random House: Charged, about the power of prosecutors, and Sticks and Stones, about how to prevent bullying. In 2020, Charged won the current interest Los Angeles Times Book Prize. Emily was also a finalist for a National Magazine Award in the public interest category in 2023.
Before joining the Times Magazine in 2014, Emily was a writer and editor for nine years at Slate and a law clerk on the First Circuit Court of Appeals. She is a graduate of Yale College and Yale Law School.