About

I’m a freelance reporter and essayist. I’m the author of True Believer: The Rise and Fall of Stan Lee, for Penguin Random House’s Crown imprint and Ringmaster: Vince McMahon and the Unmaking of America, for Simon & Schuster’s Atria imprint. I am also working on another book for Atria: a biographical sketch of the musician Beck called Hollywood Freaks.

I’ve done writing, video, and audio for a bunch of media outlets: The New York Times, The Washington Post, The Wall Street Journal, New York Magazine, The Boston Globe, The New Republic, Vice, WNYC, NY1, The New York Sun, and WBAI, to name a few.

I graduated from Harvard in 2008, lived in New York City for 12 years, and have since moved to Providence, Rhode Island. But I was born and raised in Oak Park, IL and lived in Seoul for a while (I was working on my undergraduate thesis, which was about nationalism at a South Korean high school).

My pronouns are she/her. My nickname is “Josie.” I am married to the journalist S.I. Rosenbaum. We have three cats. I haven’t been working out enough lately. Have a good day.