Margot Mifflin

Margot Mifflin is an author who has written for The New York Times, ARTnews, The Washington Post, The New Yorker, O, The Oprah Magazine, Elle Magazine, The Chronicle of Higher Education, The Los Angeles Review of Books, and Vice.com.

Margot Mifflin
Born (1960-09-12) September 12, 1960
Swarthmore, Pennsylvania
OccupationBook author, freelance journalist, professor, lecturer
NationalityAmerican
Website
margotmifflin.com

Mifflin holds an M.A. in journalism from New York University and a B.A. in English from Occidental College in Los Angeles, where she was friends with Barack Obama, an experience she has written about for The New Yorker and The New York Times. In 1982 she was awarded a Thomas J. Watson Fellowship to study the role of dreams in creativity.

She is a professor in the English Department of Lehman College (City University of New York) and in the Arts Reporting Program at CUNY’s Craig Newmark Graduate School of Journalism.

Her book Bodies of Subversion: A Secret History of Women and Tattoo became the first history of women's tattoo art when it was released in 1997. A third edition was published in 2013.

Bibliography
  • Bodies of Subversion: A Secret History of Women and Tattoo. Juno Books, 1997. ISBN 1-890451-00-2; Powerhouse Books, 2001, 2013, 978-157687-613-8.
  • The Blue Tattoo: The Life of Olive Oatman. University of Nebraska Press, 2009. ISBN 0-8032-1148-1; Bison Books (paperback) 978-0-8032-1148-3.
  • Looking for Miss America: A Pageant's 100-Year Quest to Define Womanhood, 2020. 978-1640092235; Counterpoint Press.

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