About Me

I grew up right outside Nashville, long before it was home to Jack Black, the Titans, Taylor Swift's penthouse, or bachelorettes drinking beer on tractors. Since I moved to New York 20 years ago, my native city’s been colonized into hip neighborhoods with names like “Pie Town.” I wish I had restaurant recommendations, but I still eat at Shoney’s, which is now so fancy it has a bar menu.

I’m a writer and editor who’s worked at Real Simple, Martha Stewart's Whole Living, Wondertime (a short-lived parenting magazine nominated for a General Excellence Award from the American Society of Magazine Editors), the New York Times Syndicate, and Elle. Since 2013, I've been the executive editor at O, The Oprah Magazine, where I write and edit feature stories and packages about the struggles of being human. I've reported on the deep-state conspiracy suppressing the plus-size fashion industry, created a handy flow-chart guide to filing a sexual harassment suit, meditated at a New Jersey car dealership, and traveled to London to learn how to face death. I’ve also had the privilege of talking with neuroscientists, monks, extraordinary ordinary people, and Dolly Parton, who smells fabulous. (Her scent is Mary Kay Intrigue.)

Here you’ll find some highlights from my work at O, including a few stories I’ve written and packages that I edited individually or as part of the O team. (Maybe someday I’ll add my Great Feminists cross-stitch series, if I can ever get Betty Friedan’s eyebrows right.)