Andi Zeisler

Bitch Magazine

Andi Zeisler is the co-founder and editorial/creative director of Bitch: Feminist Response to Pop Culture, which began in 1996 as an all-volunteer ‘zine with a circulation of 300 and is now an internationally distributed quarterly magazine. A longtime freelance writer and illustrator, Andi's work has appeared in numerous periodicals and newspapers, including Ms., Mother Jones, Utne, BUST, the San Francisco Chronicle, the Women's Review of Books, and Hues. She is a former pop-music columnist for the SF Weekly and the East Bay Express, and also contributed to the anthologies Young Wives' Tales and Secrets and Confidences: The Complicated Truth About Women's Friendships (both from Seal Press). She is the coeditor of BitchFest: 10 Years of Cultural Criticism from the Pages of Bitch Magazine, and is working on a book about feminism and popular culture for Seal Press. She speaks frequently on the subject of feminism and the media at various colleges and universities. A New Yorker by birth and temperament, she now lives in Portland, Oregon.