Margot Mifflin is an author and journalist who writes about culture. She has been a contributing editor at Elle magazine and was a contributor at Entertainment Weekly throughout its first decade. A freelance writer who was a plaintiff in the landmark electronic copyright case, Tasini v. New York Times, she has written for The New York Times, Salon.com, The Village Voice, The New Yorker, and many women’s magazines, covering art, pop culture, books and women’s issues. She holds a B.A. in English from Occidental College and an M.A. in Journalism from NYU. Mifflin teaches English and journalism at Lehman College, where she is a faculty adviser for the student newspaper, Meridian. She has lectured at dozens of colleges and universities on her book Bodies of Subversion: A Secret History of Women and Tattoo (1997). Her biography, The Blue Tattoo: The Life of Olive Oatman, was published this year by University of Nebraska Press.