About me
Hello! My name is Maya Kosoff. I’m a freelance writer, reporter and editor. When I remember to do it I write a newsletter. I have a contract with Medium so I also write there fairly regularly. I have a podcast with cohosts Kate Lindsay and Emma Specter. I also freelance as a content marketer, ghostwriter, editorial and social media strategist, and writer for brands. I’m represented by Anna Sproul-Latimer at Neon Literary.
I started my career in 2014 at Business Insider, where I wrote about the gig economy, how millennials and Gen Zers use tech, and NYC venture capital and startups. In February 2016, I went to Vanity Fair to help launch The Hive, the section of the website and magazine focused on the corridors of power in Silicon Valley, Wall Street, and Washington DC. I was Vanity Fair’s tech reporter until December 2018, when I left to help relaunch Gawker (it didn’t quite work out). I spent several months of 2019 freelancing, with work in places including the Columbia Journalism Review and the Washington Post, before heading to the New York Times, where I was contracted to help work on a new editorial product: a new newsfeed we built and beta tested for several months within the existing New York Times app. Today I’m in-house at a small digital agency called Codeword.
I studied magazine journalism at the S.I. Newhouse School of Public Communications at Syracuse University and graduated in 2014. While I was there I also studied women’s and gender studies and Spanish, student-taught a bilingual kindergarten class in Syracuse’s Near Westside neighborhood, and resuscitated Syracuse’s music magazine, transforming it from a glorified zine into an ad-supported, multiplatform publication.
I’m from Hershey, Pennsylvania. Yes, like the chocolate bar.