I am a New York based writer and editor whose work has appeared in The Wall Street Journal, The New York Times, Vanity Fair, Vogue, New York Magazine, Town & Country, Robb Report, The Telegraph, Tatler, The Financial Times, The New York Observer and The Evening Standard. Recent work includes Wall Street Journal features on the property booms in Louisville and Nashville, an portrait of Palm Beach’s identity crisis for Vanity Fair, and most recently, for Vogue, a rare look fashion icon Jacqueline de Ribes’ house in the South of France. I was the Editor in Chief of Avenue for over four years and Culture Editor at Document Journal. During the pandemic I founded Digital Party, a weekly publication dedicated to chronicling the people and undercurrents of the New Twenties, and completed my MBA from NYU Stern in 2023.
Selected Works
Louisville’s Real-Estate Market is Off to the Races | Wall Street Journal | April 2026
Louisville has long been defined by the Kentucky Derby, but outside the annual influx of celebrities, CEOs and oversize hats, a different story is unfolding. A real-estate boom is reshaping the Louisville area that has little to do with horse racing.
As Nashville’s Population Booms, A Wealthy Suburb Clings to its small-town feel | Wall Street Journal | December 2025
Tradition is everything in Belle Meade, where locals are intent on preserving its charm and historic character—even as newcomers move to the area
The True Story of the Fraser Clan that Inspired Outlander | Vogue | August 2025
There’s nothing better than an escapist summer series. I discovered Outlander after my second child was born, when—exhausted by a newborn’s constant needs—the idea of disappearing into 18th-century Scotland was irresistible.
Palm Beach is Having a Category 5 Identity Crisis | Vanity Fair | January 2024
The entrance to the Everglades Club, on fashionable Worth Avenue, is almost hidden from view. The mirrored façade, behind carved wrought iron, deflects the intrusive glances of passersby. Its heavy, imposing door rebuffs the curious or unworthy. A strong push and the right pedigree are required to gain admittance, as you might expect from a club that considers itself one of the landmarks of Palm Beach. continue reading
Arki Busson Brings Hollywood to New Jersey | Wall Street Journal | July 2024 Arki Busson, whose romantic life has been fodder for London tabloids, is setting his $1 billion production studio in working-class Bayonne. Arpad “Arki” Busson was raised in Paris and Switzerland. He has dated supermodels, a British aristocrat and a Hollywood movie star. His career as a London financier began after meeting Wall Street legend Paul Tudor Jones in the 1980s. More recently, he could be found milling about the blue-collar town of Bayonne, N.J.
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Capturing the magic of Annabel’s in the US | Tatler | July 2024
Howard Cushing Jr. shares previously unseen photographs of Mark Birley in a Tatler exclusive - as he opens a Newport hotel inspired by his godfather’s famed and fêted London club. When Mark Birley opened Annabel’s in the heart of in London in 1963.
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Succession Drama at Vaux-Le-Vicomte | The Daily Telegraph | May 2023
A strong and controlling wealthy father whose psychological hold on his adult children is so tight that it could ruin their ability to run the family inheritance… It is a scenario straight from Succession. But this is also the true story of the de Vogüé family. Twin brothers Alexandre and Jean-Charles, who are 54, and Ascanio, 53, are the fifth-generation owners of the 17th-century Château de Vaux-le-Vicomte.
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