Hannah Orenstein

Hannah Orenstein is the Deputy Lifestyle Editor at Bustle, where she leads coverage of wellness, relationships, food, travel, astrology, technology, viral culture, and more.

She's also the author of four novels — Meant to Be Mine, Head Over Heels, Love at First Like, and Playing with Matches — and the cofounder of Heartbeat, a Substack newsletter featuring original short stories about love by the best romance novelists working today.

Previously, she worked as an editor at Elite Daily and Seventeen.com, and as a matchmaker for a dating service in New York City. She studied journalism and history at NYU. She’s also written for The Cut, Cosmopolitan, the Washington Post, and more.

She loves books, yoga, great cheese plates, reality TV, and her fat cat, Eloise. She lives in Brooklyn. Follow her on Instagram at @hannahorens.