Lizzie Skurnick is a writer, editor, and book and culture critic. She currently teaches at New York University.Skurnick first became known as the founder of the litblog Old Hag. She then started Jezebel's Fine Lines column, about past children's books as seen from the perspective of adulthood. Her first book, "Shelf Discovery: The Teen Classics We Never Stop Reading," a memoir of the young adult fiction she loved as a youth, was published in 2009.She founded the Young Adult fiction publishing imprint Lizzie Skurnick Books. The press's first original book, "Isabel's War," was published in 2014.Skurnick then started writing the "That Should Be a Word" column for The New York Times Magazine's One Page Magazine, and then wrote "That Should Be a Word: A Language Lover’s Guide to Choregasms, Povertunity, Brattling, and 250 Other Much-Needed Terms for the Modern World," which was published in 2015.Skurnick's work has also appeared in The New York Times, NPR, The Millions, TIME, The Los Angeles Times, The Daily Beast, The Chicago Tribune, and Elle.Skurnick was raised in New Jersey.