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Carrie Wittmer is a freelance writer, author, editor, and mirror selfie taker based in Brooklyn. She writes about film, television, celebrity, culture, and travel, among other things. She is the Executive Editor of Tidal Magazine and the author of First Famous Christmas, out on November 3, 2026, from 831 Stories. In 2024, she worked as senior features editor for L’OFFICIEL USA. Carrie Wittmer’s specialties are in-depth celebrity interviews (including cover stories), pop culture analysis, film criticism, television recaps, travel stories, senseless rankings, long rants on other people’s podcasts, and more.

Carrie’s work has been published in L’OFFICIEL, GQ, Time, i-d, W Magazine, The Cut, Vulture, Glamour, CULTURED, InStyle, PAPER, Harper’s Bazaar, The Ringer, Men’s Health, Elle, Bustle, Uproxx, The New York Times, The New Yorker, Consequence of Sound, Business Insider, and more. Omg impressive!

Carrie’s first book NEW EROTICA FOR FEMINISTS: SATIRICAL FANTASIES OF LOVE, LUST, AND EQUAL PAY, was published by Plume Books, an imprint of Penguin Random House in the U.S. (and Sceptre in the UK) in November 2018.

Carrie’s second book, FIRST FAMOUS CHRISTMAS, published by 831 Stories, comes out on November 3.

Lit agent: Susan Raihofer, David Black Agency.