As a freelance journalist, I have written for publications like Vanity Fair, The Washington Post, New York, Elle, Foreign Policy, Vice and The New Statesman. I started my career at The New Republic, where I was a staff writer from 2014-2015.
Selected work
When Doug and Ashley Benefield started a ballet company, it wasn’t supposed to end in death Vanity Fair, 2021
A memoir of San Francisco startup culture The New Statesman, 2020
Why we struggle to pay attention The New Statesman, 2020
The women transfixed by violent crime The New Statesman, 2019
How a public suicide harms the people who see it The Atlantic, 2018
Why do we hate people who try so hard? Elle, 2018
The fine line between romance and madness The Washington Post, 2018
How depression has- and hasn’t- become normalized New York, 2017
The afterlife of a ballerina Elle, 2016
A new book says you should talk to strangers. Counterpoint: no New York, 2016
I tried to get high on chocolate with help from a New Age shaman New York, 2016
Advice columns are thriving- but are they actually doing any good? The New Statesman, 2016
Grown women don’t need a “best friend” The New Republic, 2014
A short story in Harper’s has sparked a feud between Joyce Carol Oates and Robert Frost’s descendants The New Republic, 2013