At a favorite writing space, High Low in St. Louis’ Grand Center
I’m a writer and editor living in St. Louis, but that wasn’t always my story.
For eight years, I worked as an editor in New York City, at magazines including The Village Voice, Elle Decor, House Beautiful, Veranda, Food & Wine, and Newsweek. I hosted a podcast called Life TK, in which I interviewed women writers and editors ages 30 and over about what professional life was like in their twenties. I have edited books, and, as a freelancer, worked with clients including JSTOR, The Poetry Foundation, and Poynter.
In 2018, my husband and I decided to move back to our hometown, St. Louis, to be closer to family, and I set out to find work that would allow me to write every day. Since September 2018, I've worked at St. Louis Magazine.
Thanks to my experiences in New York City, I am equally adept at breaking news as I am writing a lifestyle piece. Stories about subjects' passions and ones that reveal tension and complexity are my favorite to tell. For St. Louis Magazine, I have sat down with Michael Brown's mother about her son's legacy as part of our Ferguson, Five Years Later package. I've peeked inside the home kitchen of James Beard award–winning chef Gerard Craft. I've found young people who are pushing for stricter gun laws in Missouri, and others who are changing the face of youth sports. I interviewed Ellie Kemper. I interviewed Chelsea Clinton. I played chess for the first time ever...with a grandmaster on the world's biggest chessboard in the middle of a busy neighborhood. (I lost, of course, but not as quickly as Bill Gates. It's a funny story.) I profiled a comedian who staged a show on what some would say was the city's biggest transportation boondoggle, an old-timey trolley. Strung together, they seem disparate, but they all have this in common: people, and what makes them them.