Mel Plaut is a writer from

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who was recognized by

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and the

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in January 2006. Plaut ran a

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called "New York Hack" about her career as a New York City taxi driver. In 2007, her book ''Hack: How I Stopped Worrying About What to Do with My Life and Started Driving a Yellow Cab'' was published by

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. At the time of publication, women made up only about 200 of the 40,000 cab drivers in NYC. Plaut has written for

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, and has had essays air on NPR's ''

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'' and ''

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''. She was educated at the University at Buffalo, the

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, the

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(BA, 1997) and City University of New York-Hunter College (MUP). In 2016, Plaut was featured in the HBO documentary ''Suited''. In 2019, Plaut published an essay in

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about moving to rural Georgia and discovering Southern queer gun groups.

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New York Hack
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