Abby Meyers is a reality TV features writer at Collider. In school, her college majors in creative writing and gender studies prepared her well to watch and write about reality television. She has been an avid viewer of reality shows for as long as she can remember, starting with marathoning seasons of America’s Next Top Model with her mom as a kid. She and her friends would gather around the television every Thursday to watch Jersey Shore together. But she truly became obsessed when she was introduced to Vanderpump Rules during its first season. Reality TV is not at all a guilty pleasure for her; she believes these shows have countless insights to offer as they reflect and inform the culture we live in. She enjoys watching and analyzing reality TV through the lens of critical media theory, looking for what unscripted shows can teach us about gender, race, and class.
When she’s not watching or writing about reality TV, Abby is a multimedia artist, an award-winning short filmmaker, a self-taught poet, and a floral designer. She is part of a collaborative street art practice that has found audiences in galleries, restaurants, and on the streets of New Orleans, Nashville, and Memphis. Most importantly, she is the proud owner of a perfect one-eyed, three-legged pitbull basset hound mix named Fetty.
