I'm an essayist and critic with a bi-weekly column at Lit Hub whose work has appeared in the The New York Times, New York Magazine, The Wall Street Journal, The LA Times, Vanity Fair, BuzzFeed, Esquire, The New Republic, Cosmopolitan, The Ringer, GQ, Publishers Weekly, Smithsonian, Town & Country, and Glamour, and more. I have an essay collection called I Want To Burn This Place Down, in the works from Ecco/HarperCollins. I hosted The Maris Review, an intimate literary podcast in which I interviewed my favorite authors about their latest books, from 2018-2023. I'm the creator of Slaughterhouse 90210, a blog and book (Flatiron Books, 2015) that celebrates the intersection of literature and pop culture. I was previously the editorial director of Book of the Month, the editorial director of digital content at B&N.com, and a publishing outreach lead at Kickstarter. I live in Brooklyn with my husband, my dog, and my books.