Margaret Talbot is currently a staff writer at The New Yorker. She has also written for The New Republic, The New York Times Magazine, where she published numerous cover stories as a contributing writer from 1999 to 2003, and The Atlantic Monthly, among other publications. Her essays have been anthologized in several books, including The Best American Science Writing 2002 (Ecco/HarperCollins) and Because I Said So: 33 Mothers Write about Children, Sex, Men, Aging, Faith, Race, and Themselves (HarperCollins, 2005). Ms. Talbot is a recipient of a Whiting Writer’s Award.

As a Senior Fellow at the New America Foundation, Ms. Talbot continues to explore such themes as the changing contours of family life, women’s work, and children’s culture in the 21st century, and politics and moral debates as they intersect with both science and the law.