Melissa Schorr

Melissa Schorr is a widely published freelance journalist and the co-author of SHAME NATION: the Global Epidemic of Online Hate, co-authored with Sue Scheff, foreword by Monica Lewinsky. She has also written two young adult novels, the cyberbullying story IDENTITY CRISIS (Merit Press, 2016) and the interfaith romantic comedy, GOY CRAZY (Hyperion, 2006). She also contributed an essay,"What I Wanted To Tell You," to the YA anthology, DEAR BULLY (HarperCollins 2011) As a native New Yorker, she grew up in the Riverdale section of the Bronx and attended the Bronx High School of Science and Northwestern University's Medill School of Journalism outside of Chicago. Upon graduating, she returned to New York City and began her publishing career at Working Woman and GQ magazines. She has served as a stringer for People magazine in San Francisco, a columnist for the Las Vegas Sun, a features reporter for the Oakland Tribune, a health writer for ABCNews.com in Boston, and an assistant editor at the Boston Globe Sunday Magazine. Her work has also appeared in more than 20 publications, including Glamour, Self, Teen People, Allure, Marie Claire, Bride's, Baby Talk, Working Mother, In Style, Esquire, San Francisco, National Geographic Traveler, Wired magazine, as well as newspapers such as the Chicago Tribune, The Wall Street Journal and the San Jose Mercury News, and websites including Lifetimetv.com, Reuters Health and WebMD. Among her accolades are winning first place for feature writing from the Nevada Press Association, and a 2000 Knight Science Journalism Fellowship from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in Cambridge, Mass. Schorr currently lives outside Boston, Mass., with her husband, her daughters, and her dog, Bailey.