Prachi Gupta

Prachi Gupta is an award-winning journalist and former senior reporter at Jezebel. Her debut memoir, They Called Us Exceptional: And Other Lies That Raised Us, was released in August 2023. She won a Writers Guild Award for her investigative essay “Stories About My Brother,” which inspired this book. Her work was featured in The Best American Magazine Writing 2021 and has appeared in The Atlantic, The Washington Post Magazine, Marie Claire, Salon, Elle, and elsewhere. She lives in New York City.