I’m Logan Hill — and, yes, I am bummed that “Logan” has gone mainstream.

I’ve written 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), Loudmouth (Showtime), and King Coal (POV).

I grew up in the rural Sandhills of North Carolina, studied film history at UNC Chapel Hill, then dropped out of Yale’s American Studies PhD program 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 and championing festival films from Sundance to Cannes.

Elsewhere, I’ve told a half-hour This American Life story about my middle-school obsession with a fantasy novelist—and my friend who ran away to find him. I’ve written hundreds of profiles about 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 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 a love-advice columnist via my syndicated Cosmopolitan columns “Ask Him Anything” and “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.