Rax King is the author of the essay collections Sloppy (Vintage, forthcoming) and Tacky: Love Letters to the Worst Culture We Have to Offer (Vintage). Her essays, articles, and opinion have appeared in Food & Wine, Bon Appetit, Glamour, Vulture, Lit Hub, Electric Literature, Slate, and Harpers Bazaar, and she wrote the Store Bought is Fine column for Catapult magazine. She co-hosts the podcast Low Culture Boil, and taught for Catapult. She holds a BA from St. John's College.