Jessica RoyJessica Roy is the Digital Director of Elle magazine, where she oversees content and strategy for the website and writes and edits stories primarily about style, culture, and global issues. American Girls is based on a feature she wrotein 2019, "Two Sisters and the Terrorist Who Came Between Them." Jessica studies Arabic and reports frequently from the MENA region; she has written about women's rights in Saudi Arabia, refugee displacement in Iraq, Kurdish female fighters in Syria, and Yezidi survivors of ISIS. She is also an adjunct professor at New York University, where she teaches writing and editing for online platforms. She lives in Brooklyn. Read More Read Less