Michele Kort was born in Los Angeles and has lived her entire life there. She holds a bachelor's degree in Art History and MBA in Arts Management from UCLA. In her twenties, she worked as an administrator for two community art centers, the Woman’s Building and the Social and Public Art Resources Center. At age 27 she discovered her calling as a journalist when she worked as Assistant Editor of The Grantsmanship Center NEWS. She later became associate editor of Songwriter magazine. Since then, Kort has been a freelance writer for such publications as Ms., Women’s Sports and Fitness, Los Angeles Times Magazine, Los Angeles Magazine, L.A. Weekly, L.A. Reader, and Redbook, a senior writer for UCLA Magazine, and a senior editor for Living Fit and Fit Pregnancy. She has been the senior editor of Ms. magazine since 2003. Here Come the Brides! is her fourth book.