Emily Bazelon will appear at the South by Bookstore to sign copies of “Sticks and Stones: Defeating the Culture of Bullying and Rediscovering the Power of Character and Empathy” following her Panel session.

Emily Bazelon is the author of Sticks and Stones: The New Problem of Bullying and How to Solve It, to be published in February of 2013 by Random House. She is a senior editor at Slate, a contributing writer at the New York Times Magazine, and the Truman Capote Fellow for Creative Writing and Law at Yale Law School. Before joining Slate, Bazelon was a Soros media fellow. She also worked as an editor and writer at Legal Affairs magazine and as a law clerk on the U.S. Court of Appeals for the 1st Circuit. Her writing has appeared in the Atlantic, O Magazine, the Washington Post, and Mother Jones, among other publications. Bazelon is a graduate of Yale College and Yale Law School. She has also made guest appearances on The Colbert Report, the PBS Newshour, and the Today Show. Bazelon was a finalist for the 2011 Michael Kelly Award, given by the Atlantic Media Company for journalism in “the fearless pursuit and expression of truth.”