About The Author

Nico Lang [they/them] is an award-winning author and journalist. Lang is the founder of Queer News Daily (@queernewsdaily) and has previously worked as the deputy editor of Out magazine, an LGBTQ+ correspondent for VICE, the news editor at Them, and a contributing editor at Xtra magazine. Their work has been published in Rolling Stone, Esquire, The Daily Beast, HuffPost, and BuzzFeed News, among others. Lang was named the 2023 Online Journalist of the Year by the Los Angeles Press Club Association and is the recipient of 13 awards from the National Association of LGBTQ+ Journalists, the Human Rights Campaign's Guardian of Truth Award, a GLAAD Media Award, and the Transgender Legal Defense and Education Fund’s Visibility Award. Lang's latest book, American Teenager, is now available in paperback.