I am the author of three books: The memoir Save the Date: The Occasional Mortifications of a Serial Wedding Guest, published by Riverhead in 2014, and two young adult novels, both published by FSG Books for Young Readers—Unclaimed Baggage, 2018, and That’s Debatable, 2022. That's Debatable was an Alabama Library Association Best Teen Book of the Year and 2023 Rise Feminist Book Project Honoree, and Unclaimed Baggage was a California Young Reader Medal nominee for ’22-’23. Save the Date received a huge array of positive press coverage, and in a New York Times book review by the writer Rebecca Traister, I was called, to my great honor, “Emily Post’s worst nightmare.”

I am also a longtime freelance writer and editor who is a frequent contributor to the New York Times book review, most recently reviewing Curtis Sittenfeld’s latest story collection and Lynn Steger Strong’s recent novel, Float. I’ve written widely for publications including Esquire, Fortune, GQ, Glamour, the New York Times, the L.A. Times, New York Magazine, Publishers Weekly, the Week, and more. I was a staff writer for the Village Voice, the managing editor at Mental Floss magazine, and a senior writer for The Atlantic. (Ask me about the time I knocked my salad to the floor during a breaking news event and didn’t pick it up until after I finished the blog post! No, this is not a good thing.)

About a million years ago, I was the copy chief and then the managing editor for the now-defunct, pop-culture skewering Radar magazine, where I literally put out a fire in a trash can at least once. Currently, I edit for the pop-culture website Mashable.

I live in a historic (but not landmarked) house in New York’s Hudson Valley with my husband and two dogs, where, along with writing, editing, and taking care of my home, I serve as the chairperson of the Marbletown Board of Ethics and am a trustee of the Stone Ridge Library.