Hi! I’m the deputy editor of the Boston Globe Magazine. Before that, I was a story editor for the magazine and a freelance journalist for the New York Times and Financial Times. I was also a book critic for NPR.
At the Globe, I’ve written stories about families looking for missing loved ones at the center of Boston’s opioid epidemic, the head of an addiction nonprofit who was hiding his criminal past, and a lesbian bar in Western Massachusetts at the center of an internet firestorm (The Daily Beast called that one “the greatest article ever written.”)
I’ve also written about the longest-serving prisoner in the United States, the libertarians working to take over New Hampshire, Elvis impersonators, the world’s biggest dictionary, and the people working to reconstruct destroyed Stasi surveillance records.
From 2020-2022, I was based in Germany on an Arthur F. Burns fellowship and a National Geographic Society grant. Before that, I was based in London.
Here’s an interview with me about getting into book criticism. And you can find me on Twitter or reach me via email at annalisa.quinn [at] gmail.com.
For more clips, see here.
