Writer Coley Gallagher has written for Huff Post, Motherwell, The Chicago Tribune, Hypertext Magazine and Mutha. 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. Later, she worked subsistence grant and copy writing jobs for nonprofits in Washington, DC, New York City, then Chicago.

During the Covid-19 pandemic, Coley turned her whole family against winter. She now resides on Florida’s Atlantic coast. She recently finished a memoir.