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Olga Khazan

Olga Khazan

Olga Khazan is a staff writer for The Atlantic and the author of Me, But Better: The Science and Promise of Personality Change. Her first book, Weird: The Power of Being an Outsider in an Insider World, came out in 2020. She has also written for The New York Times, the Los Angeles Times, The Washington Post, Forbes, and other publications. She is a two-time recipient of the International Reporting Project’s Journalism Fellowship and winner of the 2017 National Headliner Awards for Magazine Online Writing.

Latest articles by Olga Khazan

Advice
Introverts should (sometimes) act like extrovertsIntroverts should (sometimes) act like extroverts
Advice

Trust me: I tried it.

By Olga Khazan
The unexpected benefits of being weird
Culture

I went in search of outsiders who were thriving in communities where acceptance is hard to come by. It turns out, we might all learn from their approach to life.

By Olga Khazan