Diana Bruk's writing has regularly appeared in The New York Times, Forbes, The Paris Review, Salon, VICE, Guernica, The New York Observer, The Independent, BuzzFeed, Cosmopolitan, Seventeen, Esquire, Elle, Harper’s Bazaar, and many more publications.

Her articles have consistently garnered significant media attention, and she has been interviewed by HuffPost Live and featured in London’s Sunday Times, The Moscow News, and more. She was previously the Senior News Editor at Best Life Online and the Viral Content Editor in the Newsroom of Hearst Digital Media.

Diana’s portfolio consists of a vast and diverse body of work that includes personal essays, lifestyle articles, breaking news posts, and viral content. Her areas of expertise, however, are Russia, sex and relationships, and mental wellness.

Diana Bruk was born in St. Petersburg, Russia, and immigrated to New York at the age of five. She studied creative writing at Sarah Lawrence College, and completed a Masters in Comparative Literature (English and Russian) at the University of Oxford. She has taught English language and literature in the Czech Republic, Russia, the UK, and the top university in China.

She is currently teaching a writing course at Hunter College in NYC. In her free time, you can find her falling out of a balancing posture in a yoga class or desperately trying to wrangle something out of her dog's mouth.