Vanessa Maia Grigoriadis is an Americanjournalist. Her work has been featured inThe New York Times,Vanity Fair, andRolling Stone among other publications.
Grigoriadis is of Greek descent and grew up inNew York City. When she was younger she played classical violin and danced. Grigoriadis graduated fromWesleyan University. She also spent a year studying the sociology of religion atHarvard University.
Grigoriadis is a generalist writer forThe New York Times Magazine, andVanity Fair. Her featurePower Girls reportedly inspired the MTV reality seriesPoweR Girls.[1] Her work does not cover one specific topic. She has been working on and off for theNew York magazine since she graduated from college. Here, she began working as an editorial assistant and eventually worked her way up to becoming a contributing editor at the age of 25. In 2003, she was a writer on the Style desk at theNew York Times.[2]
In 2014, Grigoriadis wrote a cover story onEmma Sulkowicz, theColumbia University student known for her playMattress Performance.
Grigoriades developed that as her first book,Blurred Lines: Rethinking Sex, Power, and Consent on Campus. Published in September 2017, the book is an exploration of the changing attitudes toward consent on college campuses across the United States.
Grigoriadis received theNational Magazine Award in 2007 in profile writing for a profile of designerKarl Lagerfeld.[3] She was nominated in 2008 for feature writing, a piece titled "Gawker and the Rage of the Creative Underclass".[4] She was also nominated for a Mirror Award for a profile ofArianna Huffington.
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