Our new contributor

Daisy Alioto introduces Dirt’s new contributing writer, Paula Mejía.

Today we have an exciting announcement! As Dirt expands into different verticals (design, tennis…more soon) we are re-focusing our flagship newsletter on our roots in entertainment and digital culture. To that end, we’re bringing on Paula Mejía as a contributing writer for the next couple of months. 

Paula has previously written for Dirt about David Hockney’s set design for an unfinished Puccini opera, the literary and screen canon of summer seasonal affective disorder, and—most recently—camouflaged cell towers. 

Elsewhere, she wrote DAZED’s cover story on Bad Bunny, profiled Damon McMahon aka Amen Dunes, and interviewed Kyle MacLachlan about losing David Lynch. She is the perfect person to anchor Dirt in the broader trends impacting entertainment right now and how they influence you.

You’ll hear from Paula once a week and Dirt itself ~three times a week. Between Dirt, Prune, STRUNG, and (more???) we look forward to being in your inbox every day. You’re going to love what’s next! 

More about Paula: 

Paula Mejía is a Colombian American writer and editor from Houston, Texas. She is a contributing culture writer at SFGate, and was formerly the arts editor at the Los Angeles Times and a Senior Editor at Texas Monthly. Her writing has appeared in the New Yorker, GQ, NY Mag, The Atlantic, and more. A co-founding editor of “Turning the Tables,” NPR Music’s Gracie Award–winning series, she is also the author of a 33⅓ series installment on the Jesus and Mary Chain’s 1985 album Psychocandy. She teaches graduate arts writing at USC’s Annenberg School for Communication and Journalism and lives in Los Angeles.