Abby Ellin

Abby Ellin is an award-winning journalist and the author of Teenage Waistland: A Former Fat Kid Weighs In On Living Large, Losing Weight and How Parents Can (and Can't) Help . For five years she wrote the Preludes column about young people and money for the Sunday Money and Business section of the New York Times . She is also a regular contributor to the Health, Style, Business and Education sections of the New York Times . Her work has been published in The New York Times Magazine , New York ...See more

Abby Ellin is an award-winning journalist and the author of Teenage Waistland: A Former Fat Kid Weighs In On Living Large, Losing Weight and How Parents Can (and Can't) Help . For five years she wrote the Preludes column about young people and money for the Sunday Money and Business section of the New York Times . She is also a regular contributor to the Health, Style, Business and Education sections of the New York Times . Her work has been published in The New York Times Magazine , New York , the Wall Street Journal , the Los Angeles Times Magazine , Psychology Today , Time , Newsweek , the Village Voice , the Boston Phoenix , Salon , Marie Claire , Cosmopolitan , Glamour , and Spy (RIP). She holds an MFA in Creative Writing from Emerson College and a Masters in International Public Policy from Johns Hopkins University. As of this writing, her greatest accomplishments are summiting Kilimanjaro (with a broken wrist!) and naming Karamel Sutra ice cream for Ben and Jerry's. See less