Taylor Swift

This follows the megastar from her roots as a country artist to her transition into pop and finally into the cultural phenomenon touring today, covering both her music and her extraordinary life.

Kase Wickman is a culture journalist, editor, and author. Her reporting, criticism, and commentary has appeared in the New York Times, The Washington Post, Rolling Stone, and New York Magazine, among other publications. She is the culture & society reporter at Vanity Fair, and her first book, BRING IT ON: The Complete Story of the Cheerleading Movie That Changed, Like, Everything (No, Seriously), was published in 2022 by Chicago Review Press. Kase lives on the East Coast with her husband, daughter, and 12-foot-tall lawn skeleton, Terror Swift. 
Joanna Weiss is a Boston-based writer and editor whose work has appeared in Politico, The Atlantic, Slate, The Boston Globe, The Economist, and the book Nasty Women and Bad Hombres: Gender and Race in the 2016 Presidential Election. Her Boston Magazine story, “For Those Moms About to Rock,” about the rock band she formed with four working-mom friends during the pandemic, has been optioned for film, with a comedy in development at 20th Century Studios. She thinks of Taylor Swift as a model for songwriting, though she will likely never write a 10-minute-version of anything. 
Moira McAvoy lives, writes, and markets shows in Washington, D.C. A founding editor of Bad For You, McAvoy has also served on the editorial staff of NANO Fiction and The Rappahannock Review, and her work can be found in The Rumpus, The Financial Diet, wig-wag, and elsewhere. When not attending her next favorite concert–or promoting yours–Moira can be found taking long walks, making memes, and testing theories about Taylor Swift’s music. McAvoy is currently within the top 500 all-time global listeners for five different Swift tracks (and counting).