Janelle Brown is an American journalist and writer, born in San Francisco, California. She is a graduate of UC Berkeley. Her career includes being a staff writer for Wired, and writing for the websites HotWired and Wired News. She was editor and co-founder of Maxi, a women's pop culture webzine. Her work has appeared in The New York Times, Vogue, Elle, Wired, Self, The Los Angeles Times, and other publications. She is the author of All We Ever Wanted Was Everything, This is Where We Live, and Watch Me Disappear.