Rachel Kranz

Rachel Kranz is a fiction and nonfiction writer based in New York City. She coauthored The Triple Bind: Saving Our Teenage Girls from Today’s Pressures and Conflicting Expectations with psychologist Stephen Hinshaw, Ph.D., published by Ballantine Books in 2009. Her other books include the novel Leaps of Faith and nonfiction works such as The Chemistry of Joy, coauthored with Henry Emmons, and Affirmative Action.

Her writing has appeared in publications including The Nation, Newsday, The Daily Beast, Women’s Review of Books, Brooklyn Rail, and Cineaste. She has also written two plays, Playing Alexina and Stunt Man, and has collaborated on more than thirty books.