Laura Miller is a journalist and critic living in New York. She is currently a books and culture columnist at Slate. Laura is also co-founder of Salon.com, where she worked as an editor and writer for 20 years.

Her work has appeared in the New Yorker, Harper's, the Guardian and the New York Times Book Review, where she wrote the 'Last Word' column for two years.

She is the author of The Magician's Book: A Skeptic's Adventures in Narnia and editor of the Salon.com Reader's Guide to Contemporary Authors.