Bella DePaulo (Ph.D., Harvard), is a Project Scientist at the University of California, Santa Barbara. She is the author of books such as Singled Out: How Singles Are Stereotyped, Stigmatized, and Ignored, and Still Live Happily Ever After, and How We Live Now: Redefining Home and Family in the 21st Century. She also writes the “Living Single” blog for Psychology Today and the "Single at Heart" blog for PsychCentral.

Atlantic magazine described Bella DePaulo as “America’s foremost thinker and writer on the single experience.” Dr. DePaulo has discussed single life on radio and television, including NPR and CNN, and her work has been described in the New York Times, the Washington Post, the Wall Street Journal, USA Today, Time, Atlantic, the Economist, the Week, More, the Nation, Business Week, AARP Magazine, Newsweek, New York magazine, and many other publications. Professor DePaulo has also written for the New York Times, Washington Post, the Guardian, Time magazine, Forbes, the Chronicle of Higher Education, Nautilus, Quartz, Alternet, Truthout, and other publications.