Charley Burlock is the Books Editor at Oprah Daily, where she writes, edits, and assigns stories on all things literary. She has interviewed global icons like Cher, Malala Yousafzai, and Michelle Obama (twice!)— but still gets nervous when she has to ask the CVS clerk to unlock her shampoo.

Charley holds an MFA in Creative Nonfiction from NYU, where she also taught undergraduate creative writing. She graduated Phi Beta Kappa, summa cum laude, and with departmental honors from Middlebury College, where she was the recipient of both the William B. Catton Prize, a college-wide award granted to the graduating senior with the strongest thesis work, and the Stolley-Ryan Prize, awarded to the top graduating English major.

In her free time, Charley writes about grief, urban design, and culture. Her work has appeared in The Atlantic, The Los Angeles Review of Books, Electric Literature, Hyperallergic, and elsewhere.