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Daisy Alioto is the CEO of Dirt Media.

Her career has touched practically every genre of media. From a fashion internship at ELLE, she went on to intern at NPR (twice) in audience development. From there, she held staff positions in audience engagement at International Business Times and Time Inc., where she supported the launch of the US edition of Wallpaper* magazine. She then went on to manage audience development at The New York Review of Books. Most recently, she was the audience engagement manager at HODINKEE, the world’s preeminent resource for all things watches. She also co-founded the NFT-funded newsletter, Dirt.

Her journalism and nonfiction have appeared in The New York Times Magazine, The Wall Street Journal, The Paris Review Daily, TIME, New York Magazine, The New Republic, GQ, Longreads, Los Angeles Review of Books, Curbed, Vox, CityLab and Condé Nast Traveler among others.

In 2013, she graduated from Bowdoin College where she was awarded the Academy of American Poets Prize, the Bowdoin College Non-Fiction Prize and the DeAlva Stanwood Alexander First Prize (for best baccalaureate speech). Her poetry has appeared in The Christian Science Monitor, Unbroken Journal and Triangle House Review. She aspires to live in a lighthouse.

Agent: Allison Devereux at Trellis Literary Management

Contact: daisyalioto[at]gmail[dot]com