Merriam-Webster (Editor)

Kory Stamper is a lexicographer and former associate editor at Merriam-Webster, where she worked from 1998 to 2018 on dictionary entries and appeared in the 'Ask the Editor' video series. She is the author of *Word by Word: The Secret Life of Dictionaries* (2017) and *True Color* (2026), and has contributed to publications like The New York Times, The Guardian, and The Washington Post. After leaving Merriam-Webster, she worked freelance with Cambridge University Press and as senior editor of lexicography at Dictionary.com until 2024.[1][2][5]