Hey, I’m Cat! I’m a critic and journalist in Brooklyn, New York. I’m currently the Associate Editor at Pitchfork, and I’ve also contributed to the New York Times, New Yorker, Washington Post, the Cut, Slate, NPR, Vice, and Real Life. I won a 2022 ASME Next Award for journalists under 30, where judges praised my “sophisticated and engaging style” and ability to occupy many roles, including “historian, sociologist, analyst and music critic.” I’d love to write for you.

Pitchfork
- Review of Caroline Polachek’s Desire, I Want to Turn Into You
- Review of Olivia Rodrigo’s Guts
- Review of Mitski’s The Land Is Inhospitable and So Are We
- Review of Water From Your Eyes’ Everyone’s Crushed
- Review of Boygenius’ The Record
- Profile of Yaeji ahead of her debut album With a Hammer
- Essay about Imogen Heap’s longstanding influence
- Deep dive into music fandom on Discord
- Sunday Review of Kesha’s 2010 debut, Animal
- Feature about the meaning of “Asian American music”
- Feature about city pop and the Western imagination of Japan
Select other
- New York Fungus Festival scene report (New York Times)
- Profile of comedian Jamie Loftus (New Yorker)
- Review of Esther Yi’s novel Y/N (Vulture)
- Review of Sheena Patel’s novel I’m A Fan (Washington Post)
- Review of Awkwafina’s sitcom Nora from Queens (The Cut)
- Analysis of “TikTok Face” (Real Life)
- Look at the Instagram gossip site Deuxmoi (Real Life)
- Interview with TikTok fashion forecaster OldLoserInBrooklyn (Vice)
Appearances
- On the Pitchfork Review talking about Caroline Polachek
- On the NYT Popcast discussing Mitski
- On the Netflix show Explained dissecting TikTok dances
- On NPR talking about TikTok sensation PinkPantheress
- On Vulture’s Switched on Pop breaking down Japanese city pop
- On Vulture’s Switched on Pop explaining TikTok’s musical landscape
- On the Pitchfork Review discussing TikTok and activism
- In the Guardian talking about TikTok teaser campaigns
- In Astra Magazine online recapping my search history
- In the Embedded newsletter explaining my digital habits
- In Music Journalism Insider breaking down my Discord feature
- My city pop feature was featured in the NYT Morning newsletter
- My “TikTok Face” article was included in media studies. press’s Social Media and the Self reader