Jessica is a freelance writer based in Washington, D.C. She is a a contributing writer to the Washington Post’s Arts & Style section and a contributing editor to Washingtonian.
You can also read her work in The New York Times, The Washington Post Magazine (RIP), BuzzFeed News (also RIP), Cosmopolitan, The Cut, Elle, Entertainment Weekly, Esquire, Glamour, GQ, The Guardian, The Hairpin (RIP as well), InStyle, Lainey Gossip, Marie Claire, The New Republic, Politico Magazine, and ThinkProgress (once more, with feeling: RIP).
She recaps 'You,' ‘Emily in Paris,’ ‘Wednesday,’ ‘The Watcher,’ and ‘The White Lotus’ for Vulture, New York Magazine's culture site. She also recapped ‘Conversations with Friends,’ ‘Normal People,’ 'House of Cards,' ‘Dickinson,’ ‘Chilling Adventures of Sabrina,’ 'Pretty Little Liars,' 'Veep,' 'Marvel’s Jessica Jones,' and 'Parks and Recreation' through those series finales.
She writes often for McSweeney's Internet Tendency, where she wrote the site’s sixth most-read piece of 2019 (“A Statement from the University of Pennsylvania Regarding the College Admissions Bribery Scandal”) and the eighth most-read pieces of 2018 (“I, Too, Grew Up In The Crime-Ridden Streets Of Bethesda, Maryland”) and 2017 (“Hi, It's Us, All the Fourteen-Year-Old Girls in America"). You can see her perform standup around DC and catch her highlights on Instagram.
Her reporting has taken her to the cosmetic dentists to the stars, London’s finest chicken shops, the CIA, the Daily Show, Adulting School, 1998, the trials of Bill Cosby, a strip club of some notoriety, and Hitler's vacation home. She matchmade hopeful romantics for the Washington Post Magazine’s Date Lab column. Her investigation into just how punchable Martin Shkreli’s face is has been immortalized by the Center for Law, Brain, and Behavior at Harvard Medical School. She was also a 2023 Spruceton Inn Artist Resident.
To get in touch, find her on Twitter (@Jessicagolds) or Facebook or email her here. She is represented by Anna Sproul-Latimer at Neon Literary. For film & TV rights inquiries, contact Michelle Kroes at CAA.