[2] She attended the University of Michigan in Ann Arbor, where her writing won a Hopwood Award for nonfiction[3] and the Roy W. Cowden Memorial Fellowship.
[8] The coming of age novel follows 23-year-old Colleen, a mall employee in Tucson, Arizona, who rises to internet fame by blogging about her semi-famous boyfriend and recent move to sunny Los Angeles, CA.
The protagonist's obsession for a never-ending stream of external validation from online followers as well as the constant grooming of her public relationship with her boyfriend has led many critics to describe the novel as a prescient first-hand account of the rise of the phenomena of social media influencers on Instagram and Twitter.
[10] The book features essays on The Real Housewives of New York, Abercrombie & Fitch and Marc Jacobs, Alexandra Marzella, Kim Kardashian, Russian-red boots, PR jobs, and fundraising parties.
[14] She is the former editor of V Magazine and VMan and her work has been featured in books by Amalia Ulman and Vanessa Place.