Libby Copeland | |
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| Born | 1976 (age 48–49) |
| Alma mater | University of Pennsylvania |
| Occupation | Freelance journalist |
Libby Copeland (born 1976) is afreelance writer inNew York City, and was previously a staff writer for theWashington Post. She started her career with the Post in 1998 as an intern in the style department,[1] and went on to cover culture, crime and Washington politics.[2][3] In 2005, she was the Feature Specialty Reporting winner for the large circulation papers in the American Association of Sunday and Feature Editors' annual competition.[4] In 2009, she left the Post and moved to New York. Since becoming a freelancer, she has become a regular contributor toSlate, and has written for theNew York magazine, theWall Street Journal andCosmopolitan, among other publications. She has appeared onMSNBC,CNN andNPR.
Copeland was born in 1976. She is an alumna ofHastings High School ofHastings-on-Hudson, New York. She went on to major in English at the University of Pennsylvania where she won theThouron Award in her junior year.[5]
Copeland's freelance work has included a number of pieces on gender and politics forSlate,[6] a piece on product placement for New York,[7] and for Cosmo, an in-depth recounting of a gruesome murder in a D.C.-area Lululemon store.
ForStyle, the daily features section of theWashington Post, Copeland covered the2005 Michael Jackson molestation trial, the2006 Winter Olympics inTurin, Italy, and the2008 presidential election. Copeland wrote primarily about theMcCain andEdwards campaigns during the 2008 election, and profiled political figures includingJoe andJill Biden andCindy andMeghan McCain. Her coverage of the2006 Congressional mid-term elections has also been both lauded[8][9] and enthusiastically criticized[10] by theblogging community, andWonkette called one of her pieces "fawning."[11]She wrote articles for theWashington Post aboutWashington, D.C. areagraffiti artistBorf and has been the subject of some graffiti saying "Libby Copeland Writes Lies," possibly in connection with the Borf issue.[12]During the 2006 Winter Olympics in Turin, Italy, she wrote about figure skaterJohnny Weir's free-wheeling shopping habits.[13] In 2003, she wrote about modern-day Jersey "dandys" bent on reclaiming the slur "guido," prompting some controversy.[citation needed] She profiledMatt Damon,[14] and skewered the popular girls' retailerClub Libby Lu.[15]
Copeland has a book being released in March 2020 about the subject of commercialgenetic testing and its impact on traditional concepts of family.[16]
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