Mel Plaut is an American writer from New York City. [1] [2]
Plaut ran a blog from 2005 to 2008 called "New York Hack" about her career as a New York City taxi driver. [3] In 2007, writing as Melissa, their book Hack: How I Stopped Worrying About What to Do with My Life and Started Driving a Yellow Cab was published by Villard. [4] At the time of publication, women made up only about 200 of the 40,000 cab drivers in NYC. [4]
Plaut has written for The New York Times , The Huffington Post , and has had essays air on NPR's All Things Considered and Weekend America . They were educated at the University at Buffalo, the University of East Anglia, [5] the University of New Mexico (BA, 1997) and City University of New York-Hunter College (MUP). [6]
In 2016, Plaut was featured in the HBO documentary Suited, produced by Lena Dunham. [7] In 2017, Plaut married Katherine Anania and in 2019, published an essay in HuffPost about moving to rural Georgia and discovering Southern queer gun groups. [8] [9]
