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 Wall Street Journal, Elle, Slate, The Cut and Medium's OneZero.

Caitlin began her career covering technology for The Washington Post, where she served as the paper’s first digital culture critic. She later moved to the Post’s national policy desk to write about the politics and economics of the modern food system. In 2018, she returned home to Western New York and spent five years as an enterprise and investigative reporter for The Buffalo News. She has worked as a contributing writer for Vanity Fair and Stateline and taught at Syracuse University and the Poynter Institute.

Today, Caitlin is the author and publisher of the long-running independent newsletter Links I Would Gchat You If We Were Friends, which reaches tens of thousands of readers around the world. She is also a co-founder and lead instructor of Going Solo, a workshop for independent creator-journalists.

Caitlin lives with her husband, daughter and very bad dog, whom she nonetheless loves very much. Her hobbies include hosting over-ambitious dinner parties, taking rambling walks and Google-stalking unsuspecting acquaintances.