Mary G. Lord (born November 18, 1955)[1] is an American author, cultural critic, and investigative journalist.
She is an associate professor of the practice of English at the University of Southern California.
[2][3] She produces the podcast, LA Made: The Barbie Tapes with Antonia Cereijido.
[5] Lord has a BA (1977) in politics, the graphic arts and letters from Yale University and an MFA (2016) in writing from Vermont College of Fine Arts.
After graduating, she worked drawing political cartoons for the Wall Street Journal, then the Chicago Tribune, and then moved to Newsday.