Melanie Cantor is a writer and editor based in New York City. She has a degree in English literature from Brown University and has written for a variety of publications, including The New York Times, The Atlantic, and The Washington Post. Her work has also appeared in The New Yorker, The Wall Street Journal, and The Guardian. She is the author of several books, including the novel The Book of Love and Hate and the nonfiction work The Dream of the Perfect Life.