Hi! I’m Diana Heald, a Brooklyn-based writer at work on a memoir and cultural history of antidepressants. My essays and criticism have been featured in the Los Angeles Review of Books, Panorama Journal, Off Assignment, DIAGRAM, and elsewhere.

I graduated from Columbia University with an MFA in Nonfiction Writing and from Bowdoin College with degrees in English and Romance Languages. I’m a member of the National Book Critics Circle. Since 2010, I’ve also worked in the advertising industry as a brand and digital strategist.

I write a newsletter, Champagne Socialist, about various leftist concerns (advertising, fashion, public health, art).