Critic, author and award-winning journalist Maureen “Mo” Ryan is a Contributing Editor at Vanity Fair. Mo has written for EW, The New York Times, Salon, GQ, and Vulture, has been the chief TV critic for Variety, Huffington Post, and The Chicago Tribune, and has appeared in the documentaries We Need to Talk About Cosby and This Changes Everything. Her first book, Burn It Down: Power, Complicity, and a Call for Change in Hollywood, which the New Yorker called “galvanizing,” came out in 2023, and immediately hit the New York Times and Los Angeles Times best-seller lists. Mo loves tattoos, raising and tagging Monarch butterflies, gardening, meditating, and being a gremlin online.