Melissa Broder

Melissa Broder (born August 29, 1979) is an American author, essayist and poet. Her work includes the novels The Pisces (Penguin Random House 2018), Milk Fed (Simon & Schuster 2021), and Death Valley (Scribner, 2023); the poetry collection Last Sext (Tin House 2016); and the essay collection So Sad Today (Grand Central 2016). Broder has written for The New York Times, Elle, Vice, Vogue Italia, and The Cut.

Early life Broder grew up in Bryn Mawr, Pennsylvania, with her younger sister Hayley. Her father, Bob, was a tax lawyer and her mother owned a stationery store. She attended the Baldwin School and became interested in poetry early, writing her first collection in third grade. including Superdoom (2021). She won a Pushcart Prize for the poem "Forgotten Sound", included in her collection Last Sext.

So Sad Today Broder began tweeting anonymously from her So Sad Today Twitter account in 2012. She began her So Sad Today column for Vice in December 2014.

In 2016, Broder published a collection of personal essays, So Sad Today, based on her Twitter account. The collection includes some essays initially published in Vice under her So Sad Today pen name. a critically acclaimed novel that Kirkus Reviews called "old, dry, and delightfully dirty."

In 2020 it was announced that a television show based on Milk Fed was being developed.

Other projects She also writes the Beauty and Death column for Elle.

Broder records a podcast titled eating alone in my car in which she discusses her work, daily life, obsessions, and "rants about everything from mortality to Poptarts to depression."

Personal life Broder is married and lives in Los Angeles. She is a caregiver for her husband, who has a progressive neuroimmune disease that leaves him bedridden for months at a time. She is bisexual.