Megan Daum: Author of The Quality of Life Report (2003) and My Misspent Youth (2001) Hosted by Brighde Mullins, Director of the Master of Professional Writing Program Introduced by Dinah Lenney, Master of Professional Writing Program Meghan Daum writes a weekly column for The Los Angeles Times, which appears on the op-ed page every Saturday. She has contributed to public radios Morning Edition, Marketplace and This American Life and has written for numerous publications, including The New Yorker, Harpers, GQ, Vogue, New York, Travel & Leisure, The Village Voice, and The New York Times Book Review. Meghans work is included in dozens of college textbooks and anthologies, including The KGB Bar Reader, Bookmark Now: Writing in Unreaderly Times, and The New Gilded Age: The New Yorker Looks at the Culture of Affluence.