About “Me”
Rachel Krantz is the author of the reported memoir OPEN, a finalist for the Lambda Literary Award.
She is the namer of Bustle, and one of its three founding editors. At Bustle, she served as Senior Features Editor for three years, and Senior News Editor before that. She’s also worked at The Daily Beast as Homepage Editor, as Senior Editor at the non-profit news site Sentient, and at Mercy For Animals as Lead Writer.
She’s the recipient of the Peabody Award, the Robert F. Kennedy Center for Justice and Human Rights International Radio Award, the Investigative Reporters and Editors Radio Award, and the Edward R. Murrow Award for her work as an investigative reporter with YR Media.
Her work has been featured on New York Magazine’s The Cut, Vice, LitHub, Vox, The Guardian, The Huffington Post, NPR, The Daily Beast, Newsweek, High Times, Men’s Health, AFAR, USA Today, Buzzfeed Books, Publishers Weekly, Salon, Marie Claire, VegNews Magazine, and many other outlets. You can find her podcast, Help Existing, wherever you listen.
She is on the board of directors of the nonprofit Our Hen House.
She is done listing her resume in the third person! May you be happy and peaceful, healthy and strong, feel safe and protected, and live with ease and joy.