Genevieve Field is a journalist, book editor, and award-winning collaborator specializing in literary memoir.

Books she has authored, edited, or ghostwritten have been published by HarperCollins, Hachette, Penguin Random House, Simon & Schuster, and Chronicle Books. Genevieve’s investigative reporting has appeared in The New York Times Magazine, Glamour, Marie Claire, Real Simple, GQ, and many others. She has been a story editor for The New York Times Magazine, the features director of Glamour, and the editorial director of Seventeen online. Early in her career, she co-founded and edited the Webby Award–winning, National Magazine Award–nominated, Nerve magazine.

Genevieve maintains strong working relationships with many influential editors, authors, and journalists. Whether serving as a consultant, editor, or collaborator, her purpose is always the same: to help bring important stories into the world.

Genevieve Field is a journalist, book editor, and award-winning collaborator specializing in literary memoir.

Books she has authored, edited, or ghostwritten have been published by HarperCollins, Hachette, Penguin Random House, Simon & Schuster, and Chronicle Books. Genevieve’s investigative reporting has appeared in The New York Times Magazine, Glamour, Marie Claire, Real Simple, GQ, and many others. She has been a story editor for The New York Times Magazine, the features director of Glamour, and the editorial director of Seventeen online. Early in her career, she co-founded and edited the Webby Award–winning, National Magazine Award–nominated, Nerve magazine.

Genevieve maintains strong working relationships with many influential editors, authors, and journalists. Whether serving as a consultant, editor, or collaborator, her purpose is always the same: to help bring important stories into the world.

Select Collaborations

Gallery Books, Spring 2025

Say Everything: A Memoir

A NEW YORK TIMES AND USA TODAY BESTSELLER

“As juicy as the book can be, it doesn’t come across as meanspirited or salacious. It’s just Skye … letting us into her world, one that’s romantic and glamorous one minute, heartbreakingly candid and searching the next.”
The New York Times

“A wild ride.”
The Los Angeles Times

“A must-read memoir.”
The London Times

“Deeply personal, riveting, and funny, Ione has created an emotional diary that feels like a song you never want to end.”
—Cameron Crowe

“Ione tells her story of grappling with primal abandonment, love, and heartbreak with compassionate candor and a true visual artist’s recall of detail.”
—Molly Ringwald

“A coming of age tale with heartbreaking honesty and devilish humor.”
—Griffin Dunne

HARPER WAVE, 2023

Glimmer: A Story of Survival, Hope, and Healing

  • Winner of the 2024 Andy Award for collaborative Memoir & Narrative Nonfiction

  • A Zibby’s Top 10 Book of 2023

  • A USA today best Book of 2023

  • A USA Today Book Club PicK

“Searing and vividly told ... like a work of cinema verité.”
—Gabor Maté M.D.

“An intimate and vulnerable portrait of the long-term impacts of our most painful childhood experiences.”
—Nicole LePera, PhD

“A cathartic memoir about childhood abuse and the aftermath... This painful, inspiring story demonstrates that healing is neither easy nor linear, but it is possible.”
Kirkus Reviews

“Practical and Uplifting.”
People

GENEVIEVE IN THe ACKNOWLEDGMENTS

TESTIMONIALs

  • “Genevieve Field is a storyteller with a gift: the seemingly magical ability to hear a subject’s voice and channel it into seamless, sparkling, wholly original prose. She has an ear both for a story’s fine details and its large-scale architecture. She’s a dream to work with.”

    Cindi Leive, founder of the journalists’ collective The Meteor and former editor-in-chief of Glamour and Self

  • “Genevieve Field has been an invaluable asset to my fiction. Her instincts are superb; she takes what I’ve given her and shows me how to make it better, every single time.”

    Jennifer Egan, author of The Candy House and A Visit from the Goon Squad

  • “Genevieve Field is an enthusiastic, careful and endlessly creative editor—she won’t rest until a piece of writing is as good as she knows it can be, while always letting the writer know she is on that writer’s side.”

    Susan Dominus, staff writer, The New York Times Magazine

  • “Genevieve has a gift for editing. She understands writers, has compassion for them, and edits to amplify their voices rather than snuff them out. And she’s energetic even when you’re not. She never lets you be lazy. Plus, she’s fun.”

    Devin Friedman, author, former editorial director of GQ

  • “Genevieve is an uncommonly gifted editor with the ability to turn wayward scribblings into taught, deeply affecting prose.”

    Rufus Griscom, co-founder of The Next Big Idea Club

  • “Without the moxie and kind determination of Genevieve Field my story would simply have been a row of journal entries, gathering dust. With her clear vision of whom our story could reach, the story crossed oceans and spanned continents—reaching millions.”

    Britt Magnuson, author of “Look Up If You Love Me”

  • “I can’t say you helped me get my start, but I can say that you were an eager, thoughtful, wise and delicate writer and editor, who sent me out there looking very, very good.”

    Jacquelyn Mitchard, author of The Good Son and The Deep End of the Ocean

  • “Genevieve Field is simply a great editor of longform. She’s excellent at creating momentum and narrative tension. As an elegant writer herself, she refines even the most experienced writer's words until they shine.”

    Alissa Quart, author of Bootstrapped and Squeezed

  • “There is not enough I can say about Genevieve Field’s skills as an editor. I’ve called upon her enormous talents countless times.”

    Laurie Sandell, author of Truth and Consequences and The Imposter’s Daughter 

  • “Genevieve is supremely talented, but she’s also pragmatic. She doesn’t work with you in a vacuum. She understands the market. She helped me make the manuscript better, but she also helped me to become a better writer.”

    Kyle Spencer, author of Raising Them Right and She’s Gone Country

  • “Genevieve can coax out the gem of a story hidden amid the clutter of a first draft.”

    Jennifer Baumgardner, publisher of Dottir Press

  • “Genevieve Field has been the most important, influential, and helpful person in my career, which has spanned two decades and included six books and columns and articles for dozens of magazines.”

    Lisa Carver, author of Reconsidering Yoko Ono and The Pahrump Report

Journalism

  • Illustration for Article on The Ecowarriors Greenifying Big Tech for Marie Claire Magazine

    The Ecowarriors Greenifying Big Tech

  • Photo for Article "Should Parents of Children with Severe Disabilities be Allowed to Stop Their Growth?" for the New York Times Magazine

    Should Parents of Children With Severe Disabilities Be Allowed to Stop Their Growth?

  • Photo of Shivani Siroya for Article in Marker

    Shivani Siroya Is Transforming the Lending Market in Developing Countries

  • Photo of Fidji Simo for Marie Claire Magazine

    Fidji Simo is on a Mission

  • Photo of Chloë Grace Moretz for Marie Claire Magazine

    Chloë Grace Moretz on Overcoming Her Past

  • Photo of Zendaya for Glamour Magazine

    The Unstoppable Zendaya

  • Photo of Sarah Silverman for Glamour Magazine about Depression

    Sarah Silverman Opens Up About Her Battle With Depression

  • Photo of Toms Founder Blake Mycoskie for Glamour Magazine Article About Paternity Leave

    Paternity Leave: Toms Shoes Founder Blake Mycoskie on How It Changes Everything

  • Photo of Woman in Tech for Article on Secrets of Silicon Valley That Only Women Know in Glamour Magazine

    Secrets of Silicon Valley (That Only Women Know)

  • Photo of Cecile Richards of Planned Parenthood for Glamour Magazine

    Cecile Richards: “I Will Fight for Women’s Rights Every Day”

  • Photo of Susan Wojcicki, Former Youtube CEO, for Glamour Magazine

    Susan Wojcicki and the Bold Career Moves That Paid Off

  • Photo of Three Girls for "Just Another Girl Who Use to Be a Boy" for Glamour Magazine

    Just Another Girl (Who Used to Be a Boy)

Find more of Genevieve’s articles on Muckrack. Hear her discuss ghostwriting on As Told To and co-founding Nerve magazine on Web Masters.