Kelly Faircloth is the executive editor at Scary Mommy, where she commissions freelance pieces; if you’ve got a story you’d like to share, pitch her here! She’d love to hear from you.
Previously, Kelly spent 8 years at Jezebel.com, where she wrote the site’s popular Royal Tea column — why yes, that IS Hampton Court Palace in the background of her headshot — and was a senior editor commissioning pieces on books, history, and culture. In her long tenure at the site she also wrote about romance novels, body image, HGTV, American consumer culture, and history, as well as one ridiculously viral post about how medieval people walked. (She still doesn’t understand why so many people clicked on that one.) She started her career at Inc. Magazine and The New York Observer, and she has written for publications including Dwell and Curbed.
A graduate of Harvard University, she grew up in Georgia between a river and a railroad and has a frankly unnerving number of anecdotes about growing up in a swamp. She currently lives in New York with her husband, kindergarten-age daughter (unclear how her daughter is already a kindergartener), and one extremely large and surly cat who sits next to her while she works and makes threatening noises at birds. She has a lot of questions about the world-building in Paw Patrol and can most often be found at the local library, trying to turn her kid into a reader of sword-and-sorcery fantasy novels, a project that is going very well.
For more, her LinkedIn page is here.
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