Ana Marie Cox

Ana Marie Cox had a long, disastrous career in mainstream media before being forced into the shallow waters of the blogosphere. An editor at Mother Jones, the Chronicle of Higher Education and the American Prospect, her poor people skills made her unpopular while her sarcasm drove people away. Internet journalism, with its higher tolerance for misfits, provided an early home -- Ana was an editor at Suck.com, the long-running daily humor magazine; at Feedmag.com, the somewhat longer-running social commentary and literary webzine; and at Inside.com, the incredibly short-running media industry website. Since starting Wonkette.com under the auspices of the Gawker Media Empire, she has been featured in many of the publications that used to reject her pitch letters and some she never even dared approach, including The New York Times Magazine, the Washingtonian, the Washington Post, Newsweek, and the Los Angeles Times.

Wonkette.com won "Political Website of the Year" at the 2005 Bloggie Awards. Her husband, Chris Lehmann, is an editor at CQ Weekly and a Washington correspondent for the New York Observer. She is working on a novel about August in DC, Dog Days, due out in January. Her dog and two cats take up the remainder of her copious free time.