What is your current job? I am a freelance writer and editor, based in Los Angeles and Taos, New Mexico. I work mostly with editors I know from previous staff jobs—at the New York Times, Vogue, the Los Angeles Times, etc. I recently started a newsletter called Points West, so I can assign myself pieces that I want to do for fun. What was your first byline? Well, my very first byline was in Surfing magazine, which no longer exists. I was still in college.