Townie Kid

I grew up not far from Oberlin College. In high school, my friends and I would drive the 20 minutes south on Rt. 58 and hang out at the campus coffee bars. I didn’t drink coffee at the time and wouldn’t for years, not in college or when I started working, though I embraced every other bad habit I associated with publishing and adulthood. Instead, I ordered steamed milk with a shot of Irish cream syrup, and sipped it while carefully slouched in a threadbare armchair. I wanted to come to Oberlin alone so I could more shamelessly play the part of an East Coast transplant, but I never worked up the courage.

All this to say: I want to read Townie.

Published by Sally

I’m the deputy managing editor at strategy + business, a freelance editor at Belt, and the former web manager at The New Yorker. My writing and editing also has appeared in The New York Times, The Independent, the Observer, the Rumpus, the Cleveland Clinic Press, and Northern Ohio Live. Additionally, I was a founding team member of Maven, a healthcare app for women. I live in Brooklyn with my husband, the musician and writer Mike Errico, and our daughter. Follow me @sally_errico.