As a writer, Tracy Quan first made a splash with her "Nancy Chan: Diary of a Manhattan Call Girl" column in Salon.com. Combining sex with a twice-weekly serial, the semi-autobiographical column centered on Nancy as she juggles her 'straight' boyfriend and family with her clients and girlfriends' problems. The story continues in the novels. Tracy expresses the emotional aspects of her life experiences in her novels, her fiction writing, and keeps her journalism for professional commentary on topics of interest: the plight of sex trade workers, changing sexual mores, topical media frenzies on public personalities such as the Eliot Spitzer scandal. Quan is currently a full-time writer, has been a columnist for "The Guardian" website and is a contributor to "The Daily Beast". In 2010, Quan was a semifinalist for the "3 Quarks Daily" Politics Prize, judged by Lewis Lapham. She has become a frequent guest on Morning Brew, a Radio 3