ABOUT

I’m an entertainment, culture, and books journalist based in Los Angeles, where I report on the writers, ideas, obsessions, and cultural currents that define the West Coast and beyond. I cover the places where literature, identity, entertainment, and public life overlap.

I’m currently the Digital Features Editor at Southern California News Group, helping guide entertainment, culture, dining, and events coverage across 11 publications while contributing my own reporting on books and the evolving cultural mood of Los Angeles.

Before SCNG, I covered breaking news, books, and entertainment for The Los Angeles Times. My work ranged from fast-turnaround breaking entertainment stories to deeper news features on book bans, historic preservation and culture.

As a longtime freelancer, my work has appeared in The New York Times, BBC, Los Angeles Magazine, VICE, The Hollywood Reporter, InStyle, Cosmopolitan, and more.

My reporting has ranged from viral first-person essays and features in The New York Times to cultural critiques for Cosmopolitan (one of which a Backstreet Boy tweeted, thank you very much), and award-winning editorials on the importance of journalism for HuffPost to explorations of the cultural aftershocks of conspiracy, addiction, and digital life for esteemed national publications.

I’ve contributed to audio and documentary storytelling, including the Tubi film “Gone Before Her Time: Brittany Murphy.” I hold an MFA in Creative Nonfiction and a BA in Journalism, and I’ve been honored with five LA Press Club awards and a California Journalism Award.

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