Claire Lehmann is a writer and is the founding editor of Quillette, an online journal dedicated to long form analytical commentary which is edited in Sydney, Toronto and London. Claire is a regular contributor to The Australian where she writes about contemporary cultural issues and how they intersect with technology and psychology.   Prior to founding Quillette, Claire worked for the federal Australian government in Canberra and pursued post-graduate studies in psychology.   Quillette’s first anthology (co-edited by Claire) titled Panics and Persecutions – 20 Quillette Tales of Excommunication in the Digital Age was published by Black Spring Press in 2020, with recommendations written by Steven Pinker, Niall Ferguson, Ayaan Hirsi Ali, and Peter Thiel.