Anya Kamenetz grew up in New Orleans, Louisiana and graduated from Yale University in 2002. She is a journalist who covers the unique economic challenges facing Generation X and Y, such as higher education costs, the changing job market, and the dangers of debt. Her writing has appeared in the New York Times, the Washington Post, New York magazine, the Village Voice, Salon, Slate, Fast Company, Writer's Digest, and many other publications. In 2004, the Village Voice nominated her for a Pulitzer Prize for her work on the feature series Generation Debt: The New Economics of Being Young. Her first book, also titled Generation Debt, was published by Riverhead in 2006. Anya has also appeared as a spokesperson on youth issues on ABC, CBS, CNN, PBS, Fox News, MSNBC, CNBC, NPR, Air America, and many other outlets.