Our Authors at Kinship

Holland Baker

Freelance Writer

Holland Baker is a New York-based writer with experience writing about shopping content related to home, lifestyle, and beauty; general pop culture behavior; and pet behavior, products, and grooming tips. Her work has previously appeared in Apartment Therapy, SheKnows, Newsweek, Paste Magazine, and more.

In her free time, you can find Holland running in the park, editing children’s books, reserving too many books to keep up with at the library, and hanging out with her two very fluffy, very codependent cats named Boris and Natasha, whom she adopted from the Brooklyn Cat Cafe in 2018.

Jackie Brown

Freelance Writer

Jackie Brown lives in sunny Orange County, CA, where she works as a freelance writer and editor. Her work has appeared in Business Insider, Adopt-a-Pet, Cats.com, The Spruce Pets, and Great Pet Care, as well as National Geographic’s The Secret Life of Dogs (as author) and National Geographic’s Complete Guide to Pet Health, Behavior, and Happiness (as a contributing writer). When she’s not on deadline, you can find her paddling her outrigger canoe in the Pacific Ocean or hiking in the foothills with her two young boys.

Julie Hecht, MSc

Freelance Writer

Julie Hecht, MSc, is a Ph.D candidate studying animal behavior at the Graduate Center, CUNY, and author of the Dog Spies blog at Scientific American. Her academic publications are featured in Applied Animal Behaviour Science and Animal Behavior for Shelter Veterinarians and Staff. She would really like to meet your dog and thinks that her cat, Josh, excels at being himself. And she loves him for it.

Daley Quinn

Freelance Writer

Daley is a longtime journalist and copywriter based in New York City. Her work has appeared in publications including New York Magazine, Real Simple, TODAY, Well + Good, and many more. Daley is the proud mom to her incredibly sweet n' small two-year-old Havanese puppy, Briar Rose.

Petrana Radulovic

Contributing Writer

Petrana Radulovic is a New York City-based writer who focuses on entertainment and culture beats. In her free time, she writes fiction, sings karaoke, and tries new recipes. Her work has appeared in Polygon, IGN, Reactor, and more. She lives with a very affectionate cat named Bagel, who loves head kisses and meeting people at parties. He is smart enough to open cabinets but still too dumb to understand stairs.

Lauren Dixon

Contributing Writer

Lauren Dixon is a journalist based in Chicago. She has work published in Block Club Chicago, The Chicago School’s Insight, and Chief Learning Officer, among other places. Besides pet parenting and pet behavior, she covers technology and the staffing industry. She is the proud mom of a disabled but unstoppable calico kitty named Sookie and an anxious Cattle Dog mix, Spider-Man. (No, they are not friends.)

Kari Paul

Contributing Writer

Kari Paul is a Paris-based writer, artist, and filmmaker whose work has been published in The Guardian, The Wall Street Journal, New York Magazine, ELLE, and VICE. She has had an endless march of more than 20 foster kittens, cats, and dogs over the last few years and always cries when they leave. She covers technology, personal finance, and animal behavior, among other topics.

Alicia Kort

Contributing Writer

Alicia Kort is a writer and editor living in Brooklyn. Her work has appeared in Esquire, InStyle, Apartment Therapy, The Kitchn, Parade Home & Garden, Newsweek, Interview, Brooklyn magazine, and more. In her free time, she runs, reads, and spends time with her dog-nieces, Maya and Lady, and her cat-niece, Pepper. In her work, she focuses on pet behavior, pet-friendly spaces, and the lifestyle commerce space.

Dr. Amy Fox, DVM

Contributing Veterinary Writer

Amy Fox, DVM is a small animal veterinarian in New York City with over thirteen years of experience in a mixture of general practice, emergency medicine, and shelter medicine. A lifelong animal lover, Dr. Fox studied biology in college and then worked as a veterinary nurse before pursuing veterinary school at Cornell University.  Her expertise includes surgery, dentistry, and management of chronic conditions, and she is interested in toxicology, pain management, nutrition, care of senior pets, and educational outreach. Dr. Fox also enjoys writing about veterinary medicine and teaching, and her work has previously appeared in Spruce Pets. In her free time, she loves to cook, garden, go for long runs, and hang out with her goofy mixed-breed dog May, who provides never ending comic relief!

Timothy Baker

Contributing Writer

Timothy Baker’s work has appeared in Thrillist, Chowhound, CNBC, Newsweek, CBS Sports, The Game Master’s Guides, SyFy, and NBCUniversal. He is lucky enough to have two dogs in his life: Snoop, a nine-year-old Rhodesian Ridgeback / Dachshund mix (and complete diva) and Summer, a three-year-old Bernedoodle with a heart of gold.