Melissa Gira (“jee-rha”) Grant is a writer based in New York. She is currently contributing to Gawker and BlackBook, and is a columnist for $pread magazine.

Her work also appears in Dirty Girls, Best Sex Writing 2008, Make:, Valleywag, & The Frisky, and she has been featured in the San Francisco Chronicle, Cosmopolitan (France), Wired News, NPR, and SexTV, among others.

You can follow her on Twitter. Her personal blog is on Tumblr. Her full-on bio continues.

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