Part housing advocate. Part Warrior. A pleasant fusion of Midwest, East coast, and Caribbean. Everyone deserves to live around beautiful things.

Writer exploring the relationship between gender, culture, and history. Most recent book: Amateur (Scribner). Essays/reporting: NYT, The Atlantic, GQ, more.

This is where I experiment. This is where I learn to write.

Jillian Anthony is a writer and editor. She is the author of the newsletter Cruel Summer Book Club about change, heartbreak and healing.

My life is an open book, on Medium, called The Year of Paying Attention.

Jon Gluck is the former Editorial Director of Special Projects at Medium. He has also held senior editorial positions at New York Magazine, Vogue, and Hearst.