Lucy Kaylin

Lucy Kaylin got her start in magazines as a fact-checker at Vogue under Grace Mirabella. She then moved to GQ, where she wrote more than a hundred pieces for the magazine over nearly two decades, including dozens of cover profiles, such as the controversial, widely quoted interview with Tom Cruise in 2006. She rose to Features Editor at GQ under Jim Nelson before becoming Executive Editor at Marie Claire, where she revamped the title in partnership with Editor-in-Chief Joanna Coles. At Marie Claire, Kaylin oversaw many attention-getting stories, including "My Sister's Secret Life" by Robert Radin, which won a Folio award. She also wrote cover stories for the magazine and interviewed Barack Obama (jointly with Coles); was a finalist for the MPA Mentor of the Year award; and was instrumental in the execution of Marie Claire's reality show on the Style network, Running in Heels, in which she appeared. Kaylin has written two books; For the Love of God (William Morrow, 2000), about the decline of Catholic nuns in America, and The Perfect Stranger (Bloomsbury, 2007), about the complicated relationship between mothers and nannies, and contributed an essay to the anthology The Secret Currency of Love (William Morrow, 2009), about the role money plays in relationships. She holds an MA in English Literature from Columbia University and a BA from William Smith College, and lives in New York City with her husband, daughter, and son.