Melissa Kirsch is Deputy Editor at SheKnows. She is the author of the post-college bible The Girl's Guide (Workman, 2015), now with over 100,000 copies in print.
She has written for New York, National Geographic Traveler, Good Housekeeping, ScientificAmerican.com and Nerve, and has been consulted as an expert on women's issues for Jezebel, Glamour and Cosmopolitan. She lives in Brooklyn.