About Amanda Marcotte
Amanda Marcotte was raised in Alpine, a small town in West Texas. She attended St. Edward’s University where she majored in English Literature, graduating at the top of her class. While working for UT Austin dealing with financial aid, she founded a blog called Mouse Words, which consisted mostly of musings on music and feminism. Amanda won the Koufax award for Best New Blog of 2004 for Mouse Words, and shortly after she went to work on another popular blog, Pandagon. She has also written for AlterNet and the Washington Post’s PostGlobal forum.