Profile: Hanna Rosin

About Me:

Hanna Rosin is a founding editor of DoubleX.She splits her time writing longer stories for the Atlantic and shorter ones for DoubleX. This year, she was nominated for a National Magazine Award for a story about transgendered children, and roundly attacked for another story about breast-feeding. She got her start in journalism at the New Republic writing contrarian essays, and more recently worked at the Washington Post, doing straight reporting, mostly on politics and religion. She has written for the New Yorker, the New York Times and GQ. She was born in Israel, grew up in Queens, and went to Stanford University. She now lives in Washington, D.C. with her husband, Slate editor David Plotz, and their three children (whom she loves despite what the breastfeeding advocates say). She is also the author of God's Harvard: A Christian College on a Mission to Save the Nation. She has maybe five followers on Twitter only two of whom are relatives but if more come then she may actually start, you know, tweeting.