Margot Mifflin is a journalist and author who focuses on women's issues, art, and current culture. She has written for a variety of publications, including the New York Times, the New Yorker, Entertainment Weekly, the Believer, and Salon.com. She is the author of Bodies of Subversion: A Hidden History of Women and Tattoo. Mifflin is an English professor at Lehman College of the City University of New York (CUNY) and the director of the Arts and Culture department at the Graduate School of Journalism at CUNY, where she also lectures.