Virginia Sole-Smith

Virginia Sole-Smith is the author of The Eating Instinct: Food Culture, Body Image and Guilt in America and Fat Talk: Parenting In the Age of Diet Culture. Her reporting on diet culture, fatphobia, health and parenting has appeared in the New York Times, Scientific American, and many other publications. She also writes the newsletter Burnt Toast and hosts the Burnt Toast Podcast. She lives in New York's Hudson Valley with her husband, daughters, and too many houseplants.