Lauren Mechling

Rachel Dodes is a freelance culture writer. She's a regular contributor to Vanity Fair, and her work has also appeared in Town & Country, ELLE, Esquire, The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal, and Buzzfeed, among other publications. Dodes previously was a staff writer at The Wall Street Journal where she covered the fashion and film industries.

Lauren Mechling has written for The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal, The New Yorker online, and Vogue, where she wrote a regular book column. She's worked as a crime reporter and metro columnist for The New York Sun, a young adult novelist, and a features editor at The Wall Street Journal. A graduate of Harvard College, she lives in Brooklyn with her husband and two children. She is currently a senior editor at The Guardian US.