Melissa Gira Grant is a journalist and author, covering sexual politics, criminal justice, and human rights. She is a writer in residence with the Fair Punishment Project (a joint initiative of Harvard Law School’s Charles Hamilton Houston Institute for Race & Justice and its Criminal Justice Institute), and she has been a contributing writer for Pacific Standard and The Village Voice. Her latest book is Playing the Whore: The Work of Sex Work (Verso, 2014). (December 2017)