Melissa Gira Grant (born 1978)[citation needed] is an American journalist.

She is a staff writer at The New Republic and the author of Playing the Whore (Verso, 2014), and co-editor of the ebook Coming and Crying (Glass Houses, 2010).

[citation needed] Grant worked at St. James Infirmary Clinic in San Francisco from 2006 to 2009.

[citation needed] Grant’s writing covers the intersection of sex, politics, and technology.

[9] Grant also has written for the Appeal, the Nation, Pacific Standard, the Village Voice,[10] the Atlantic, Wired, the Guardian, Reason, Glamour, Slate, Jezebel, Rhizome, AlterNet, In These Times, Valleywag and $pread.