PRACHI GUPTA is a former senior reporter at Jezebel and co-host of Jezebel‘s former politics podcast Big Time Dicks. She won a Writers Guild Award for her investigative essay Stories About My Brother. Her work was featured in The Best American Magazine Writing 2021 and has appeared in The Atlantic, The Washington Post Magazine, Marie Claire, Salon, Elle, and elsewhere. They Called Us Exceptional: And Other Lies That Raised Us (Crown) is her debut memoir.