Her mother is an Episcopal priest who currently serves as the Dean of Christ Church Cathedral in Cincinnati.
[8][10] Greenwell began as an intern, and soon covered the Iraq war from Baghdad for The Washington Post shortly after college.
[11] She later covered education and philanthropy and was part of The Washington Post team that won the 2008 Pulitzer Prize for breaking the Virginia Tech shooting.
[13][14] Greenwell was the executive features editor for Esquire.com and was hired as the fifth and first female editor-in-chief of Deadspin in 2018.
"[18] Greenwell is married to David Heller, an assistant professor of internal medicine and global health at Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai.