Charley Burlock is a Books Editor at Oprah Daily, where she mostly covers literary fiction, memoirs, and Oprah’s Book Club picks. She also writes about grief, urban design, and culture for anyone who will take her. Her work has appeared or is forthcoming in The Atlantic, The Los Angeles Review of Books, Hyperallergic, and elsewhere.

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.

Charley is currently working on a book about the infrastructure of American grief.

She promises she is actually really fun at parties.