- Graduated in 2000 from the College of William & Mary with a Bachelor of Arts in English and Cinema Studies.
- At the College of William & Mary she was co-editor-in-chief of the William and Mary Review and a reviewer for the campus newspaper The Flat Hat.
- In 2003 she earned a Master's Degree in Non-Fiction Writing from Columbia University.
- A renowned music journalist, she has written three books, Pink Moon (2007), It Still Moves: Lost Songs, Lost Highways, and The Search for the Next American Music (2008), and Do Not Sell At Any Price: The Wild, Obsessive Hunt For The World's Rarest 78rpm Records (2014).
- Staff writer for The New Yorker and Pitchfork. She has also written for The New York Times and Paste.
- Won a Guggenheim Fellowship in 2016.
- Both of her parents were school teachers.
- In 2016 Brooklyn Magazine named her to its 2016 list of "100 Most Influential People in Brooklyn Culture,".
- Serves as clinical assistant professor at the Gallatin School of Individualized Study at NYU. She began teaching at NYU in 2010 and joined the full-time faculty in 2015.
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