Leigh SteinLeigh Stein is the author of the novel The Fallback Plan, which made the "highbrow brilliant" quadrant of New York's "Approval Matrix," as well as a collection of poetry, Dispatch from the Future, selected for Publishers Weekly's Best Summer Books of2012 list, in addition to the Rumpus Poetry Book Club. Her nonfiction has appeared in Allure, BuzzFeed, Gawker, the Hairpin, the New York Times, Poets & Writers, Slate, the Toast, and xoJane. Formerly an editorial staff member at the New Yorker, she currently lives outside of New York City and codirects the nonprofit organization Out of the Binders, which advances the careers of women and gender-nonconforming writers through conferences called BinderCon. For her advocacy work, she has been called a "leading feminist" by the Washington Post, and honored as a "woman of influence" by New York Business Journal. Read More Read Less