Maureen Callahan


Maureen Callahan is a writer and editor for the New York Post known for her coverage of pop culture including fashion, the music industry, and subcultures of New York City. She has also written about politics, and is Irish-American. Callahan has also written for Sassy, Spin, New York magazine, MTV, and Vanity Fair. She authored Champagne Supernovas: Kate Moss, Marc Jacobs, Alexander McQueen, and the '90s Renegades Who Remade Fashion, a 2014 non-fiction account of the fashion industry and Poker Face: The Rise and Rise of Lady Gaga in 2010. She grew up on Long Island and lives in Brooklyn.
Callahan received an ASCAP-Deems Taylor award as co-author of "Don't Drink the Brown Water", a piece in SPIN magazine about what led to the Woodstock riots of 1999. The article was also selected for inclusion in DaCapo's "Best Music Writing 2000".
In 2016, Irish America listed Callahan as one of its "Top 50 Power Women" of the year.
In 2019, Callahan published the true crime book American Predator.

Career

Callahan began working for Sassy magazine and MTV at age 17. She has a B.A. from the School of Visual Arts in New York City.
Marc Spitz wrote about going to a Michael Jackson concert and sharing the experience of growing up in the 1980s with Callahan in his book Poseur: a memoir of downtown New York in the '90s.