Maggie Mertens is a writer, journalist, and editor in Seattle. Her essays and reporting have appeared in The Wall Street Journal, The Atlantic, NPR, Sports Illustrated, ESPNw, Glamour, and Creative Nonfiction, among others. Her first book Better Faster Farther: How Running Changed Everything We Know About Women (Algonquin Books, June 2024) is a national bestseller and received Starred Reviews from Kirkus, BookPage, and Booklist. Mertens is an experienced speaker and has made multiple media appearances on national and regional television, multiple NPR affiliates, and numerous podcasts.
For readers of The National Team, Good and Mad, and Born to Run, as well as feminist histories like Fly Girls, this edge-of-your-seat, virtually unknown story tells how women broke into competitive running over the last century, getting faster and fiercer with every race and changing our understanding of gender and power in one of America’s most popular pastimes──and beyond.
Maggie Mertens 
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