Cole Kazdin

Cole Kazdin is a writer, performer and four-time Emmy Award-winning television journalist. She is the author of What's Eating Us: Women, Food, and the Epidemic of Body Anxiety (St. Martin's Press), and a contributing author to the bestselling book, The Moth Presents All These Wonders: True Stories About Facing the Unknown.

 

She has written for VICE, TIME, The New York Times, Los Angeles Times, Los Angeles Magazine, The Daily Beast, MEL Magazine, Cosmopolitan and many others, and has produced for Good Morning America, Nightline, World News Tonight, Fox and Netflix.​

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Cole has told stories live on The Moth's Mainstage across the country, The Moth Radio Hour on NPR, RISK!, and has performed storytelling all over Southern California where she is a proud, three-time Moth GrandSLAM champion. Her solo performances have garnered national praise and been optioned for film. 

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She coaches and teaches writers all over the world, as well as leading workshops and classes for corporations and universities and currently teaches at the UCLA Extension Writers' Program. She lives in Los Angeles.