Lauren Kirchner is a freelance writer, editor, and radio producer based in Brooklyn. She majored in philosophy at Wesleyan University and received her masters in journalism from Columbia University. Her work has appeared in Capital New York, Slate, The Awl, The Hairpin, Wired, Fast Company, and Smithsonian.com, among others. She currently edits the weekly podcast for Longform.org. She was previously assistant editor of the Columbia Journalism Review, where she wrote about the future of news for CJR.org, wrote the Darts & Laurels column for the print magazine, and created CJR’s podcast series. Her poetry has also appeared in The Literary Review and Armchair/Shotgun. She was the proprietor of a now-defunct list-joke blog called The Lonesome Lumberjack. You can find her on Twitter, or e-mail her at
lauren (dot) kirchner (at) gmail (dot) com.