Raised in New York City, Kit Rachlis earned a BA in American Studies from Yale. He has served as executive editor of The Village Voice, editor-in-chief of the L.A. Weekly, senior projects editor at the Los Angeles Times, and editor-in-chief of Los Angeles magazine. From 2011 to 2014, he was editor-in-chief of the Washington, D.C.-based political magazine The American Prospect. He currently is a senior editor at California Sunday Magazine. Articles he has edited have gone on to win a Pulitzer Prize, the Livingston Award, the James Beard Award, the Ernie Pyle Award, and PEN Center USA award, among others. His writing has appeared in several anthologies, most recently Empty Nest: 31 Parents Tell the Truth About Relationships, Love, and Freedom After the Kids Fly the Coop (Hyperion). He is also a senior fellow at the Center on Communication Leadership and Policy at USC’s Annenberg School for Communications. @kitrachlis (Twitter)