FULL PORTFOLIO

Below are links to my writing over the years (including from college—because that’s how deep this goes; maybe it’s really just a page for me more than you). Visit my portfolio page for highlights.

GLAMOUR

A selection of my shopping writing (find all articles here)

• The Best Vibrators, Approved by Sex-Toy Experts & Tested by Us

• The Best Shampoos for Thinning Hair, According to 27 Testers

• The Best Bikini Trimmers for a Close Shave, Tested & Reviewed

• The Best Walking Sandals for Women, Tested by Glamour Editors

• Review: I Tell All My Friends to Buy the Oura Ring

• Review: This Tiny Camera Is My Favorite Purchase of 2024

• Sales: Yes, Dyson’s Airwrap Is Worth the Hype—And It’s on Major Sale for Prime Day

• Feature: I Got Chin Lipo to Remove My Double Chin Forever

SELF

A selection of my shopping writing (find all articles here)

• Feature: I Quit My Job Because of Burnout

• Feature: What I Wish I'd Known Before My Health Scare

• Feature: Being Called Exotic Is Just One Reason Dating Gives Me Anxiety As a Biracial Woman

• The Best N95 Face Masks—And Where You Can Buy Them

• Asian American-Owned Small Businesses You Can Support Today

• Actually Useful Gifts All Practical People Will Appreciate

• Best-Selling Bidets That Will Leave You So Fresh and So Clean 

• The Best Vegan Meal Delivery Services

• The Best Dresses on Amazon Under $50

• Everything That a First-Time Cat Owner Needs

• The Best Oral Sex Toys For People Who Crave More Tongue

• The Best Home Workout Equipment, According to Trainers

• Products That Got Me to Love Yoga at Home

• Best-Selling Foot Massagers to Treat Your Tired Toes

• The Best Bras, According to Women of All Bust Sizes 

• Notebooks That Will Motivate You to Start Journaling 

• Sleep Products That Help Me Power Nap Like a Boss 

• Review: This Is the Sex Toy I Didn't Know I Needed

• Review: The Dyson V8 Animal Is the Best Vacuum I’ve Ever Owned

• Review: This Microwave Popcorn Popper Bowl Changed My Snack Game

• Review: Eight Sleep Pod 2 Pro Cover Review

• Review: Road Test: I Tried Hinge’s Virtual Date Night Kit

• Review: I Finally Found a Sun Protective Shirt That’s Actually Cute 

• Review: These Incense Matches Make My Apartment Smell Like a Fancy Forest 

• Review: My Stylish Standing Desk Converter Truly Makes Working From Home a Joy 

• Review: This Manicure Box Makes Doing My Own Nails Easy and Fun 

• Review: I Was Ready to Give Up on Bluetooth Earbuds—and Then I Tried This Pair 

• Review: Road Test: I Did a Digital Detox With a $300 ‘Dumb’ Phone 

• Review: This Ergonomic Mouse Is Perfect for Your Achy Wrists

• Review: Hoka One One Performance Crop Running Tights

• Review: New Balance Q Speed Track Running Shorts

• Review: These $19 Rainbow Glasses Are My Favorite Purchase This Year

The Daily Beast

• Feature:This Exhibit Takes You Inside J.K. Rowling’s Mind as She Created Harry Potter

• Feature: #MeToo: I Can't Distinguish What I Do for Myself from What I Do for Men

• Feature: A Biracial Woman Reflects on Building Bridges in the Time of Trump

• Feature: 'Harry Potter' Is My Patronus in the Time of Trump

• 'I March For My 13-Year-Old Daughters': Women Tell Us Why They're Protesting In D.C.

• Limbaugh: Hurricane Irma Coverage is Liberal Media Plot to Advance ‘Climate-Change Agenda’

• Michael Vick Tells Colin Kaepernick to Get a Haircut. Twitter Reminds Vick No One Needs His Advice.

• How Hillary's Fans Turned 'Nasty' Around

• First Lady Melania Trump Swats President Trump's Hand—Again

• Sally Yates Testified Today. This Is Her Getting Mansplained In One GIF.

• Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand: ‘Has [Trump] Kept His Promises? F**k No’

• Jon McEnroe Says Serena Williams Would Rank ‘Like 700th’ on Male Tennis Circuit. Serena Shut Him Down.

• President Trump Allegedly Blocks Left-Leaning Veterans' Rights Group On Twitter

• A Year Later, New Photos of Omran Daqneesh, the 5-Year-Old Syrian Boy Whose Bloody Face Captured the World

• John McCain Blames Odd Questions at James Comey's Hearing On Baseball

• Justin Trudeau Kayaked Up to This Girl’s Parents and They Geeked Out

• ‘Handmaid’s Tale’ Protesters Descend on the Capitol to Protest Senate GOP’s Health Care Bill

• This Is Bill O'Reilly Reading Filthy, Un-Hearable Lines From His Audiobook

• The President Thinks There Are 20 Countries in the G20. False.

• Betsy DeVos Delivered a Graduation Speech—And Got Roundly Booed

• #WithFewExceptions Goes Viral After President Trump's Lawyer Claims Taxes Don't Link to Russia

• Bonnaroo Attendee Carrying 1,000 Fake Drugs Tells Cops He Was Doing ‘God’s Work’

• Hillary Clinton Unveils Her New Venture, ‘Onward Together.’ Its Reception is... Tepid

• Woman Finds Amazing Rare Photos of 1980 Mount St. Helens Eruption

• Samuel L. Jackson Just Dropped An Ad with a Message for Georgia Voters

• Woman Destroys $200,000 in Valuable Art During Act of Snapping Selfie

Cosmopolitan

• Feature: I Didn't Have My First Kiss Until College, But Don't Call Me a Late Bloomer

• Feature: 'I'm a Virgin Working at Cosmo!' (cover line: 'HELP! I'm a Virgin At Cosmo!')

• Feature: This Is What Happens When You Write About Your Virginity In Cosmo

• Feature: Secrets to Steal from Extreme LDRs

• Podcast guest: Cosmo Happy Hour Podcast: 'I'm An Adult Virgin'

• 2012 America’s Hottest Bachelors

• Cover Look/Behind the Scenes at the Cover Shoot

• 15 Ways to Get a Killer Body Image (Yahoo! Shine)

• 50 Things About You

• How to Break Up With a Guy

• Skin Apps that Could Save His Life

• What His Apartment Says About Him

• 10 Things You'll Learn in June Cosmo

• The Last Thing You Wanna Hear on a Bad Day

• Our Cheesiest Cosmo Bachelors Photos Ever

• Irresistibly Hot Shirtless Bachelors

• From the Editor

• Cosmo Confessions

• Cosmo Life: Weekend

• How To: Travel

• Fun Fearless Females

• Fun Fearless Fail

Women’s Health

• Why I Can't Figure Out What to Do with My Pubic Hair

• Should We All Just Retire Hand Jobs?

The Huffington Post

• Lessons I've Learned (So Far) Living in New York

• Why the South Carolina Primary Is Secondary

• Why Lady Gaga Class Is Not Sexy

• Why I Enrolled in 'Lady Gaga and the Sociology of Fame'

REDBOOK

• Don't Let Your Teen Drive Tired

• Is Your Kid the Next Big Singing Sensation?

• 7 Days of High-Energy Meals

GIN + PLATONIC

Selections from my now-retired blog

• The Bachelorette

• Spinning Into Control

• My Tinder Date with a Satanist

• That Time My Gyno Prayed For Me

• My Sexual Miseducation

• My Blind Date Diary

• #PubicHairProblems

• Hokay, Cupid

• My Almost Affair with the Sandwich Man

• My First Valentine's, or that Time I Dated a NASCAR Driver

• That Time I Went on a Livestreamed Blind Date

Garnet & Black

Editor-in-Chief (University of South Carolina student magazine)

• Summer Issue (print)

• Spring Issue (print)

• Winter Issue (online-only)

• Fall Issue (print)

• Videos

  • Behind-the-scenes fashion

  • Interviews with MTV's The Buried Life cast

  • Rapper Matisyahu

  • PostSecret's Frank Warren

  • Garnet & Black Promotional

Executive Editor, 2011

• Fall Issue; Cover story "Stripped"

• Winter Issue