Caitlin Dewey is a writer and occasional essayist based in Buffalo, New York. She has hired fake boyfriends, mucked out cow barns and braved online mobs in pursuit of stories for outlets including The Washington Post, The New York Times, The Atlantic, The Guardian, Stateline, Elle, Slate and Cosmopolitan. From 2012 to 2018, Caitlin covered digital culture, food and agriculture at the Washington Post. In 2018, she moved to Western New York to live closer to family and tackle enterprise projects for The Buffalo News, her hometown paper. Caitlin also writes the long-running weekly newsletter “Links I Would Gchat You If We Were Friends" and is an advisor to the Poynter-Koch Journalism and Media Fellowship program.