Lizz Schumer

Title: Senior Editor, Books

Education: Goddard College, St. Bonaventure University

Lizz Schumer has been working as an editor and writer for over a decade, covering all things culture, entertainment, and human interest. She's been covering the publishing industry for the last five years.
She joined PEOPLE in 2024.
Previously, Lizz worked as a senior editor at Good Housekeeping Magazine, founding the GH Book Club in 2021. She has also written for The New York Times, The Spruce Eats, SELF, VinePair, HuffPost, and many others. She's also the author of "Buffalo Steel" and "Biography of a Body."

Lizz Schumer has over a decade of experience in the media industry as a writer, reporter, and editor and joined PEOPLE as a senior editor in the books vertical in 2024.

Before joining PEOPLE, Lizz worked as a senior editor at Good Housekeeping magazine, where she covered books, podcasts, pets, and culture, and edited longform features and first-person essays. She founded the GH Feel-Good Book Club in 2021 and GH+ Reads in 2023. She previously worked as a staff writer for Good Housekeeping, Woman's Day, and Prevention magazines and her writing has appeared in The New York Times, SELF, HuffPost, VinePair, Salon, and many others.

Prior to moving to New York City in 2018, Lizz worked as a staff reporter and then became editor-in-chief of The Hamburg Sun and The Springville Journal, wrote for The Buffalo News and Buffalo Spree Magazine and was a visiting professor in the journalism department at Canisius College.

Lizz has published two books, "Buffalo Steel" and "Biography of a Body." She also teaches journalism courses at New York University and serves as a writing coach with the New York Writing Room.

Lizz received her Master of Fine Arts in creative nonfiction from Goddard College and her B.A. in journalism and mass communication from St. Bonaventure University.

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