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New York, NY, USA
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Freelance writer covering design, lifestyle, commerce, entertainment, and culture, with over a decade's worth of experience in digital and print media. Particular areas of interest include design, interior design, service journalism, the culture of work, and, as always, HGTV. I also write Your Home Is Not Ugly, a newsletter about design for normies.
I'm working on a story for the Guardian about high-quality items/dorm room necessities (trash cans, shower curtains, shower caddies, laundry baskets, mini fridges, etc) that survived a life in the dorm and are now still being used in their life after graduation and beyond -- a dorm fridge that's now a minibar, an alarm clock that's going to last forever, etc. I'd like to talk to a bunch of recent-ish graduates (for the purposes of this, it'd be best if you had graduated at least 5 years ago) about these items and that'll then be paired with product recs. (If a shower caddy you loved is now the thing that holds cleaning supplies under your sink, we'd talk about that shower caddy and then I'd source a version of said item that's available now.)
Deadline: Jul 30th, 2026 12:00 AM ET
•The Guardian