Coley Gallagher has written for Newsweek, Huff Post, Motherwell, The Chicago Tribune, The Orlando Sentinel, Hypertext and Mutha Magazine. She’s reported about women’s soccer for US Soccer.com and the site Playing for 90.

Coley grew up in and around Orlando, Florida. She worked subsistence grant and copy writing jobs for nonprofit organizations in Washington, DC, New York City and Chicago. During the Covid-19 pandemic, she turned her whole family against winter. She’s back in Florida, where she lives near the beach.