Selected Writing

You can find all my work for ELLE on my author page. For some selected highlights, please see the list below.

BOOKS

Author Profiles and Interviews

• ‘It Hurts My Feelings That I Am a Person’: Mary H.K. Choi Confronts Her Own Loneliness With Pool House (ELLE, Profile, June 2026)

• Ann Patchett Has Already Determined the ‘Best’ Book of the Year (ELLE, Profile, June 2026)

• Jesmyn Ward on the Power of Detail in an Age of Distraction (ELLE, Profile, May 2026)

• With The Sixth Faction, Veronica Roth Returns to the Divergent Series (ELLE, Profile, April 2026)

• Emma Straub Wrote a Boy Band Novel. She Wants You to Take It Seriously. (ELLE, Profile, April 2026)

• Is Creativity Dead? Susan Orlean Knows Better (ELLE, Profile/Essay, October 2025)

• R. F. Kuang Is Making Magic (ELLE, Q&A, September 2025)

• Kennedy Ryan Wants Publishing to ‘Let Her Cook’ (ELLE, Profile, May 2025)

• Torrey Peters Cuts Through the Noise with Stag Dance (ELLE, Profile, March 2025)

• Sabaa Tahir Refuses to Pull Her Punches (ELLE, Profile, October 2024)

• Katie Kitamura Will Return in 2025 With Her Newest Novel, Audition (ELLE, News, July 2024)

• Is Elin Hilderbrand Really Retiring? It’s Complicated. (ELLE, Profile, June 2024)

• Kaliane Bradley Fell in Love With a Dead Man. The Result is The Ministry of Time. (ELLE, Profile, May 2024)

Features

• Can Influencers Predict the Next Big Thing in Books? (ELLE, Feature, January 2025)

Reviews and Essays

• We Already Know How Sunrise on the Reaping Ends. That Doesn’t Change Its Impact. (ELLE, Review, March 2025)

Lists

• The Best Books of Summer 2025, According to ELLE Editors (ELLE, June 2025)

• The Best Books of Spring 2025 (ELLE, May 2025)

• How to Navigate Emily Henry’s Romance Novel Universe (ELLE, April 2025)

• The Best Literary Fiction Books of 2024 (ELLE, December 2024)

• The Best Fantasy and Sci-Fi Books of 2024 (ELLE, December 2024)

• The Best Mystery and Thriller Books of 2024 (ELLE, December 2024)

• The Best Romance Books of 2024 (ELLE, December 2024)

• The Best Nonfiction Books of 2024 (ELLE, December 2024)

• The Best New Books to Read in Summer 2024 (ELLE, June 2024)

TELEVISION

Celebrity Profiles and Interviews

• Never Underestimate Elizabeth Banks (ELLE, Profile, April 2026)

• Kaitlyn Dever Wants to Humanize the Most ‘Controversial’ Character in The Last of Us. Can She Pull It Off? (ELLE, Profile, April 2025)

• Myha’la Claims Her Name (ELLE, Profile, September 2024)

• Morfydd Clark Isn’t Afraid to Face the Fan Fervor (ELLE, Profile, August 2024)

• Bella Ramsey Wants Much More Than Survival (ELLE, Profile, January 2023)

• Quinta Brunson Has A Hit. Better Yet, She Has A Plan. (ELLE, Profile, April 2022)

• Confronting the Eternal Youth of Anna Chlumsky (ELLE, Profile, February 2022)

• Mackenzie Davis Wakes From a Fever Dream (ELLE, Profile, December 2021)

• Amita Suman Takes Inej Ghafa as Seriously as You Do (Harper’s Bazaar, Q&A, April 2021)

Features

• Women Creatives Thought Hollywood Could Change. Were They Wrong? (ELLE, Feature, December 2023)

Reviews, Recaps, and Essays

• After the Stranger Things Season 5 Finale, What Are We Meant to ‘Believe’? (ELLE, Recap/Review, January 2026)

• Pluribus Is Going to Make You Wait (ELLE, Recap/Review, December 2025)

• Outlander: Blood of My Blood Season 1 Recaps (ELLE, Recaps, August 2025-Present)

• Can The Bear Survive Without Carmy Berzatto? (ELLE, Review/Explainer, June 2025)

• The Last of Us Season 2 Recaps (ELLE, Recaps, April 2025-Present)

• Severance Season 2 Recaps (ELLE, Recaps, January-March 2025)

• Zero Day Squanders Its Chance to Meet the Moment (ELLE, Review, February 2025)

• Industry Season 3 Recaps (ELLE, Recaps, August-September 2024)

• So, Are We Ready to Talk About the Bridgerton Season 3 Carriage Scene? (ELLE, Review, May 2024)

• I Was Begging The Morning Show Not to Do This (ELLE, Review, November 2023)

• The Silo Season Finale Is Somehow Mostly About Tape (ELLE, Review/Recap, July 2023)

• King George’s ‘Madness’ In Queen Charlotte Confronts the Myth of the Love Cure (ELLE, Essay, May 2023)

• Abbott Elementary Understands the Art of the Slow Burn (ELLE, Review, April 2023)

• Outer Banks Never Needed to Do This Much (ELLE, Review, February 2023)

• Andor Played the IP Game the Right Way (ELLE, Review, November 2022)

FILM

Celebrity Profiles and Interviews

• The Making of Mia Goth (ELLE, Cover Story, October 2025)

• After Anora, Mikey Madison Will Never Be the Same (ELLE, Cover Story, November 2024)

• Hannah Berner Took the Funniest Possible Road to Fame (ELLE, Profile, July 2024)

• Let Fala Chen Reintroduce Herself (ELLE, Profile, August 2021)

• Kiki Layne Is Leading a Revolution, and It Starts with The Old Guard (Harper’s BAZAAR, Profile, July 2020)

Features

• The Simple Yet Remarkable Feat of Women Talking (ELLE, Feature, January 2023)

• Have We Reached the Peak Of the Princess Diana Cinematic Universe? (ELLE, Feature, November 2021)

Reviews and Recaps

• We Live in Time Proves It’s More Than a Tear-Jerker (ELLE, Review, October 2024)

• The Best Films We Watched at the 2024 Toronto International Film Festival (ELLE, Review, September 2024)

• At Least It Ends With Us Knew How to End (ELLE, Review, August 2024)

• Dune: Part Two Gives Us a Warped Take on ‘The One’ (ELLE, Review/Explainer, March 2024)

• The Best (and Buzziest) Films of the 2023 Toronto International Film Festival (ELLE, Review, September 2023)

• Barbie’s Final Joke Is Also Its Most Meaningful Lesson (ELLE, Review, July 2023)

• Blonde Isn’t Mere 'Fictionalization.’ It's Negligence. (ELLE, Review/Explainer, September 2022)

• Don’t Worry Darling’s Plot Twist Is Its Ultimate Undoing (ELLE, Review/Explainer, September 2022)