Glynnis MacNicol is the author of three books including I'm Mostly Here to Enjoy Myself: One Woman's Pursuit of Pleasure and No One Tells You This. She wrote, produced, and hosted WILDER: A Reckoning with the Legacy of Laura Ingalls Wilder, for iHeart Media. She has contributed to numerous collections. She writes the weekly newsletter Good Decisions.
No One Tells You This (S&S, 2018), was named one of the Best Books of 2018 by Esquire, the Financial Times, and the CBC, and was a 2019 New York Times 'Paperback Row' pick. WILDER was an official Tribeca Festival 2023 Selection.
Her writing has been featured in the The New York Times, The Guardian, Vogue, The Cut, New York Daily News, Town & Country, The Daily Beast, GEN, and ELLE, among others. She started out as a media and politics reporter for The Huffington Post, and later Business Insider, and covered the 2008 conventions for Playboy magazine.
In 2021, MacNicol co-produced and story-edited iHeart Media's Under the Influence podcast, hosted by Jo Piazza. It's been named to multiple 'best of' lists.
Additionally, she has authored Becoming a Baker, part of Simon & Schuster's 'Masters at Work' series, and co-wrote HelloFlo: The Guide, PERIOD.: The Everything Puberty Book for the Modern Girl (Dutton, 2017), with HelloFlo founder Naama Bloom. With Rachel Sklar, she co-edited and contributed to the best-selling Amazon Kindle essay collection The 10 Habits of Highly Successful Women.
In 2012, MacNicol co-founded TheList with Rachel Sklar. TheList was acquired in 2020.
She lives in New York City
No One Tells You This (S&S, 2018), was named one of the Best Books of 2018 by Esquire, the Financial Times, and the CBC, and was a 2019 New York Times 'Paperback Row' pick. WILDER was an official Tribeca Festival 2023 Selection.
Her writing has been featured in the The New York Times, The Guardian, Vogue, The Cut, New York Daily News, Town & Country, The Daily Beast, GEN, and ELLE, among others. She started out as a media and politics reporter for The Huffington Post, and later Business Insider, and covered the 2008 conventions for Playboy magazine.
In 2021, MacNicol co-produced and story-edited iHeart Media's Under the Influence podcast, hosted by Jo Piazza. It's been named to multiple 'best of' lists.
Additionally, she has authored Becoming a Baker, part of Simon & Schuster's 'Masters at Work' series, and co-wrote HelloFlo: The Guide, PERIOD.: The Everything Puberty Book for the Modern Girl (Dutton, 2017), with HelloFlo founder Naama Bloom. With Rachel Sklar, she co-edited and contributed to the best-selling Amazon Kindle essay collection The 10 Habits of Highly Successful Women.
In 2012, MacNicol co-founded TheList with Rachel Sklar. TheList was acquired in 2020.
She lives in New York City