Vanessa Grigoriadis is a contributing editor at New York Magazine, Rolling Stone, and Vanity Fair. She has been with New York on and off since she graduated from Wesleyan University in 1995, first as an editorial assistant, then promoted to contributing editor in 1998. She grew up on the Upper West Side of New York City, where she played classical violin and danced with Alvin Ailey in her teens.

She was also a writer on the Style desk at the New York Times in 2003. Prior to that, she spent a year studying the sociology of religion at Harvard University.

Vanessa won the National Magazine Award in Profile Writing in 2007, for a profile of Karl Lagerfeld. She was also nominated for the 2008 Award in Feature Writing for a New York magazine cover story, "Gawker and the Rise of the Creative Underclass."

Vanessa lives in Los Angeles and New York, and can be reached at vanessagri [@] mac.com.

Her work has been published in these books and mentioned in these articles.