Allison Glock-Cooper is the author of the New York Times notable book and Whiting Award winner Beauty Before Comfort. Her work has been published in the New York Times, GQ, Rolling Stone, Esquire, the New York Times Magazine, the New Yorker, O, the Oprah Magazine, Elle, Marie Claire, and many others. She is a contributing editor for the magazine Garden & Gun, a senior writer at ESPN, a columnist for Southern Living, and the recipient of a GLAAD award. Her first poem was recently published in the New Yorker. She is the coauthor of Changers Book One: Drew and Changers Book Two: Oryon.