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 I have also written for Maxim as a daily Music News Writer, The Hairpin, Thought Catalog, NY Magazine, Vanity Fair, NY Post, Destination America's paranormal site, The Hauntist, Cosmopolitan, GQ, Consequence of Sound, and Rolling Stone. In 2018 I transitioned away from entertainment coverage/reporting to focus more on fiction writing. You can find my short stories on a site I run called Daily Anne Rice, which has very little, if nothing, to do with Anne Rice.
