Virginia specializes in narrative feature stories and essays. Her main focus is diet culture and anti-fat bias, but she’s also reported on poverty, campus rape, menstrual taboos, and our obsession with home renovation shows. If you’d like to discuss a prospective assignment, please contact her.
Her work has appeared in the New York Times Magazine, Scientific American, Elle and many other publications. She also writes the Burnt Toast newsletter and hosts the Burnt Toast Podcast.
“Virginia Sole-Smith is a first rate reporter and a warm, compassionate, funny writer to boot.”
— Katha Pollitt, columnist for The Nation and author of Pro: Reclaiming Abortion Rights
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