The first thing I ever wrote was about a seagull. I guess I saw a seagull flying around in the sky while I was standing in the driveway of my home in Southern California at the age of ten and got all inspired or something. I saw the seagull, went into my room, and wrote a poem about it. And I've been writing poems about seagulls ever since!

No I haven't.

In the late '90s I got my start writing for a string of local papers in suburban Illinois covering hot topics like new tanning salons and baby beauty pageant winners. I went on to freelance for a few publications in Chicago such as The Chicago Reader, New City, and Time Out Chicago. At some point I moved to New York and surfed a wave of sweaty ambition into the position of Music Editor for Bust Magazine, and later, for VICE Magazine. Alongside those positions I have also written for Maxim as a daily Music News Writer, The Hairpin, NY Magazine, Total Bozo Magazine, NY Post, Vanity Fair, The Hauntist, Cosmopolitan, GQ, Consequence of Sound, and Rolling Stone. In addition to all that I also maintain a site called Daily Anne Rice, which is a collection of my essay/fiction work. Notable achievements include suffering hysterical blindness while interviewing Tori Amos, and being run out of Olympia, Washington with a broom by Kimya Dawson.