Meet the Authors

Celeste Hoang and Leslie Barrie are two California girls who met in New York last year while studying at Columbia University’s Graduate School of Journalism. After graduation, Celeste went back to California to pursue fiction writing (find her other site here) and Leslie stayed in New York to jump on her dream of working for a magazine. Combined, the two have worked at SavvyMiss.com, InStyle magazine, Metro.Pop magazine, BeautyNewsLA.com, Health and Entrepreneur magazine. They love pugs, brunch, sales, cupcakes, Anthropologie, tea time, walking from Morningside Heights to SoHo on a Saturday morning, crepes in Belmont Shores, and, of course, reading and writing.

*As of January 2011, Leslie is focusing on her two (yes, two!) jobs because she’s a superwoman. So let’s welcome…

OUR NEW WRITER, KIM ORR!

The most important thing to know about Kim is that she loves to laugh and does it often. Like Celeste and Leslie, she went to school for journalism; in fact, she met Celeste while working at Entrepreneur magazine! But she’s passionate about almost anything that’s artsy or creative. When she’s not writing for Utterly Smitten or working at her full-time job – web editing for NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory – she’s planning her next big adventure abroad. A few things she’s smitten by: riding bikes along the beach, digging for a new read, drinking tea from oversize mugs, flipping through coffee table books, walking just to see what she’ll discover, trying new extreme sports no matter how hard she falls, and yup, you guessed it, laughing.