Regan Penaluna is a writer with a master’s in journalism from Columbia University and a PhD in philosophy from Boston University. Her book, How to Think Like a Woman: Four Women Philosophers Who Taught Me How to Love the Life of the Mind, was a New York Times Editors' Choice. Previously, she was an editor at Guernica and Nautilus magazines, and you can find her writing in The Guardian, Aeon, and Lit Hub, among other places. A feature she wrote was listed in The Atlantic as "One of 100 Exceptional Works of Journalism." She lives in Brooklyn.