Amanda Montell

Lives In

Los Angeles, California

Education

New York University

Expertise

Makeup
Hair
Celebrities
Skin
Beauty

Amanda Montell has worked as a beauty editor in Los Angeles for over three years.
Amanda joined Byrdie as an associate editor in 2016 and became features editor in 2017 before going on to freelance for publications such as Time Magazine, Cosmopolitan, Bustle, and more.
She is the author of two linguistics novels.

Experience

Amanda Montell is a writer and author based in Los Angeles. She began her career as an intern at Woman's Day online before becoming an editor at Total Beauty and later, the features editor at Byrdie Beauty. She recently published her first book, Wordslut: A Feminist Guide to Taking Back the English Language, (Harper Wave, 2019) and is working on her second. Amanda also has bylines in Marie Claire and Cosmopolitan.

Education

Amanda graduated magna cum laude from NYU with a degree in linguistics and creative writing.

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