She is a freelance editor and writer based in Brooklyn and the Dominican Republic. She graduated with honors from Harvard University ('00) and spent fifteen years working in New York City's top publishing houses.
In 2015, she made the exciting/terrifying decision to leave behind a successful career as an acquiring editor and go out on her own. She wanted to be free to put one hundred percent of her time, energy, and focus into working with writers.
During her time in publishing, She edited more than one hundred books across an array of categories—including literary fiction, crime and thrillers, memoir, narrative nonfiction, humor, travel, food, and politics.
So far all of the books in her "No F*cks Given Guides" series - THE LIFE-CHANGING MAGIC OF NOT GIVING A F*CK, GET YOUR SH*T TOGETHER, YOU DO YOU, and CALM THE F*CK DOWN - have been international bestsellers. And there's a new one coming in December 2019: F*CK N