Rebecca Traister

Traister received a "Making Trouble / Making History Award" from the Jewish Women's Archive in 2012 at its annual luncheon, where Gloria Steinem was the presenter.

In 2012, Traister received a Mirror Award for Best Commentary in Digital Media for two essays that appeared in Salon ("'30 Rock' Takes on Feminist Hypocrisy–and Its Own," and "Seeing 'Bridesmaids' is a Social Responsibility") and one that appeared in The New York Times ("The Soap Opera Is Dead! Long Live The Soap Opera!").

In 2011, Traister married Darius Wadia, a public defender in Brooklyn. The couple lives in New York, with their two daughters.

Traister's first book, Big Girls Don't Cry (2010), was a New York Times Notable Book of 2010, and the winner of the Ernesta Drinker Ballard Book Prize in 2012. One of the key arguments in the book is that 2008 was the year, "in which what was once called the women's liberation movement found thrilling new life" because of the campaign of Hillary Clinton. Traister's second non-fiction book, All the Single Ladies (2016), has been referred to as a followup to the first, and presents, in the words of Gillian Whitemarch of The New York Times, a "well-researched, deeply informative examination of women’s bids for independence, spanning centuries." In 2018, Traister published her third non-fiction book, Good and Mad: The Revolutionary Power of Women's Anger.

Rebecca Traister (born 1975) is an American author and columnist. Traister is currently a writer-at-large New York magazine and The Cut, and a contributing editor at Elle magazine. Traister wrote for The New Republic from February 2014 through June 2015. Traister regularly appears on cable TV news, commenting on feminism and politics.