Guest Profile

Paula Derrow

Paula Derrow is the articles director of Self magazine, where she edits the "Self Expression" column and heads up the Happy Life section of the magazine. Her essay, What A Scale Can't Measure, appeared in the New York Times Modern Love column on December 4th, 2011.


She has more than 20 years of editing and writing experience at magazines and websites including Glamour, Harper's Bazaar and Lifetime Television for Women and is the editor of Behind the Bedroom Door: Getting It, Giving It, Loving It, Missing It, an anthology of essays by women about sex in real life.