Vanessa Armstrong is the creator of Tube Talk Media (tubetalk.media), a newsletter and website dedicated to weird history, offbeat television, and books that make your mind bend. She's also a freelance editor and journalist focused on history, pop culture, and magic with bylines at The New York Times, The Atlantic, Smithsonian magazine, Glamour, Travel + Leisure, McSweeney’s Internet Tendency, and many other publications. Other work she does includes being an associate editor at Genii, a magazine dedicated to the art of magic.
She lives in the Los Angeles area with her husband, Jon, who is a professional magician, and her daughter, Maddie, a rambunctious 5-year-old who was a key collaborator on the “Best Episodes of Bluey” list she wrote for Vulture.
Vanessa is a member of The Authors Guild and the Television Critics Association (TCA).