I have over 15 years of experience working for consumer publications and commercial brands. Specialist subject? Entertainment. Basically, if we were doing a pub quiz - or trivia, as they call it in the states - the celebrity picture round would be in very safe hands with me.
As a freelance print and digital journalist, my cover stories, zeitgeist features and first-person essays have been published everywhere from glossy magazines (Elle, Tatler) to broadsheet newspapers (The Telegraph, The Sunday Times.)
I was Entertainment Editor of Marie Claire UK for a good few years, a Commissioning Editor at The Guardian and as a freelancer I have stepped into senior positions at The Evening Standard and Cosmopolitan UK. More recently, I've been consulting for Grazia UK as their US Editor-at-Large.
I am currently documenting my experience as a Brit abroad, in the Substack newsletter, That’s so LA.
As well as writing and editing, I am a pro at wangling high-profile names for a cover shoot or event and I have the PR contacts to prove it. As an interviewer, I have a reputation for putting people at ease. John Goodman once described an interview with me as being like a therapy session. I think this is a good thing.
On the commercial side of things, I regularly contribute to the in-house publications of brands like NET-A-PORTER and Virgin Airlines, and I have extensive experience working with leading brands (HBO, Channel 4) and agencies (Guardian Labs, Studio Primer) to create content - for example, a press pack or advertorial campaign - that truly engages audiences. You can find more information about the content writing services I currently provide here.
I like telling stories. I am interested in people. I (occasionally) overshare.
I met my husband on a blind date. Remember those? It was for a story in Marie Claire. We now live in Santa Monica with our anxiety-ridden rescue dog, Sebastian and our - you could say, "miracle" - daughter, Maggie. I've definitely got a feature or two out of that.
This photo was taken by the super talented LA-based photographer Yuri Hasegawa. I was newly pregnant with Maggie at the time and felt so sick I almost vomited in that hedge. Like I said, I occasionally overshare.