Wexler is the author of Living Large: From SUVs to Double Ds, Why Going Bigger Isn't Going Better, for which she test-drove a Hummer, hiked through the country's largest landfill, attended services at a megachurch, stayed in the heart of McMansion country, got lost in the country's largest hotel, and petted the world's largest ball of twine. Available on October 26th from St. Martin's Press, you can order Living Large here. Her second book, based on her blog Awful First Dates, is forthcoming from Sourcebooks.

She is a staff writer for Allure magazine, and she has also been published in Esquire, Wired, The Washington Post Magazine, Marie Claire, Food Network Magazine, Popular Science, Ladies' Home Journal, Creative Nonfiction, Esquire’s Big Black Book, in several literary and alumni magazines, and the book Keep It Real: Everything You Need to Know About Researching and Writing Creative Nonfiction.

Wexler holds a B.A. in fiction and M.F.A. in nonfiction writing from the University of Pittsburgh, where she won the 2006 Creative Nonfiction Award. As a teaching fellow at the University of Pittsburgh, she ran composition and magazine writing courses, and spoke about writing pedagogy at the Association of Writers and Writing Programs conference in 2006.

She enjoys writing about herself in third person and living in Brooklyn with her St. Bernard.