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. Selected published work lives here.

I graduated from Columbia University with an MFA in Nonfiction Writing and from Bowdoin College with degrees in English and Romance Languages, and I’m a proud member of the National Book Critics Circle. I’ve also spent the last fifteen years working in advertising as a brand and digital strategist.

I write a monthly-ish newsletter, Champagne Socialist, about various leftist concerns (advertising, fashion, public health, art). You can read it here.