I’m Logan Hill, a film-crazed, pop-addled screenwriter who grew up in the Sandhills of North Carolina — and, yes, I am sad that Logan is no longer an unusual name.

I’ve written comedic screenplays and pilots for Apple, Picturestart, Netflix, and Endeavor as a member of the WGA. As a writer and story editor, I’ve also collaborated on some wildly imaginative documentary films, including the Oscar-nominated The Edge of Democracy (Netflix), the Emmy-winning Dick Johnson is Dead (Netflix), the Emmy-winning 306 Hollywood (POV), and King Coal (POV).

Before screenwriting, I was a journalist. I studied film history at UNC Chapel Hill, then dropped out of a PhD program in American Studies at Yale to take a job at New York Magazine, where I fell in love with the city while editing arts coverage; reviewing movies, TV, and theater; and reporting on everything else, from activists to Benihana’s inimitable Rocky Aoki. With great colleagues, I had a blast launching Vulture, where I spent TV’s Golden Age of Recaps writing about shows like Mad Men.

I’ve told a This American Life story about my middle-school obsession with a fantasy novelist—and my friend who ran away from home to find him. I’ve written hundreds of cover stories and profiles about my filmmakers and artists, from Robert Downey Jr. and Spike Lee to Richard Linklater and Rihanna — plus features on cruise ship entertainers, Hollywood’s impossible bodies, and the origins of the American folk hero Florida Man. I’ve been a New York Times TimesTalks host; a founder and host of the NYT ScreenTimes series; a Senior Editor at GQ; a movie critic on NY1’s Talking Pictures; a Sundance Institute Nonfiction Critics Fellow; a digital culture columnist at Wired/Backchannel; an editorial consultant; and, oddly enough, a love-advice columnist at Cosmopolitan, where I answered over 1,000 reader questions in my internationally syndicated print column “Ask Him Anything” and my online column “Ask Logan.”

Along the way, I’ve contributed to Bloomberg Businessweek, Cosmopolitan, Elle, Entertainment Weekly, Esquire, The Hairpin, IndieWire, Men’s Journal, The Nation, The New York Times, The New York Times Magazine, The Plain Dealer, Poets & Writers, Publishers Weekly, Rolling Stone, Slate, This American Life, Time Out NY, Variety, The Village Voice, The Washington Post Magazine, Wired, WSJ, and the anthology Technicolor: Race, Technology & Everyday Life. 

Want to talk? Email logan@loganhill.com.