Kris Herndon

An award-winning writer of both fiction and non-fiction, Lara Kristin Herndon has covered pop culture, art, architecture, design, and many other topics since 1995. Sometimes credited as Kris Herndon, Ms. Herndon’s byline has appeared in The New York Times, Reader’s Digest, O the Oprah Magazine, Read moreEntrepreneur, Wired, Metropolis, Think, Stop Smiling, Paste, Art Papers, Architecture Boston, and many other publications. She is a frequent contributor to the album-cover blog Cover Our Tracks, and her writing has been featured on Refinery29, BuzzFeed, Everlast, The Little Blue Marble, Majuscule, The Watercooler HQ, and Common Edge Collaborative. In 2018, her opinion piece, “The Wealthy Are Poised for the End of the World,” won Best Op-Ed from the American Society of Journalists and Authors, and in 2015 her essay, “Personal Growth,” was featured in O’s Little Book of Happiness alongside such notable contributors as Elizabeth Gilbert, Neil DeGrasse Tyson, Brené Brown, Jane Smiley, and Roxane Gay.