Marissa Walsh '94 is a former children’s book editor. She is the co-author of the Boston Globe bestseller Tipsy in Madras: A Complete Guide to 80s Preppy Drinking and the author of American Idol: The Search for a Superstar—The Official Book and Girl with Glasses: My Optic History, a comic memoir. She edited the young adult anthology Not Like I'm Jealous or Anything: The Jealousy Book and, coming in summer 2007, is the YA novel A Field Guide to High School. She lives in Long Island City, New York.