Melissa Broder is an author, essayist and poet. Her work includes novels The Pisces (Penguin Random House 2018) and Milk Fed (Simon and Schuster 2021), the poetry collection Last Sext (Tin House 2016), and essay collection So Sad Today (Grand Central 2016), as well as the popular Twitter feed also titled So Sad Today, on which the book is based. Broder has written for The New York Times, Elle, Vice, Vogue Italia, and New York magazine‘s The Cut.