Michelle Goldberg

Michelle Goldberg
Goldberg on a Brooklyn Book Festival panel, 2012
Born	1975
Education	University of California, Berkeley
Occupation	Journalist, author
Spouse(s)	Matthew Ipcar
Website	http://www.michellegoldberg.net

Michelle Goldberg (born 1975) is an American journalist and author, writing from a liberal / progressive left-of-center perspective. She is a senior correspondent for The American Prospect and a columnist for The Daily Beast and Slate. She was formerly Senior Contributing Writer at The Nation.

Born in Buffalo, New York, Goldberg earned a Bachelor of Arts degree at the State University of New York at Buffalo; she also holds a Master of Science degree in journalism from the University of California Berkeley Graduate School of Journalism.

Beginning in 2002, she was for several years a senior writer at Salon.com. For approximately two years, through September 2015, she was Senior Contributing Writer at The Nation.

Goldberg's first book, Kingdom Coming: The Rise of Christian Nationalism (2006), was a finalist for the 2007 New York Public Library's Helen Bernstein Book Award for Excellence in Journalism. In 2009 she published The Means of Reproduction: Sex, Power, and the Future of the World (2009), which is based on her own reporting about the state of women's reproductive rights across several continents, and explores what she terms the "international battle over reproductive rights".

She is a senior correspondent at The American Prospect, and a columnist for The Daily Beast and Slate. Her work has been published in the magazines The New Republic, Rolling Stone, and Glamour, and in The Guardian,The New York Times, The Washington Post, and other newspapers.