Erin Bried | |
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![]() Bried with her National Magazine Award in 2019 | |
Born | Allentown, Pennsylvania, U.S. |
Education | Pennsylvania State University |
Known for | Editor-in-chief, Kazoo magazine |
Spouse | Holly Bemiss m. 2008 |
Children | 2 |
Website | kazoomagazine.com |
Erin Bried is an American publisher, author, and the founder and editor-in-chief of Kazoo magazine, the first children’s magazine to win the National Magazine Award for General Excellence, in 2019. [1] She is the author of three books, including How to Sew a Button: and other Nifty Things Your Grandmother Knew.
Bried was born in Allentown, Pennsylvania, to William Bried, a lawyer, and Claire Bried, a teacher. [2] She attended Parkland High School in South Whitehall Township, Pennsylvania [3] where she was captain of the soccer team in her senior year [4] and was nominated for the first "Soccer Scholar Athlete Award" from the Eastern Pennsylvania Conference in 1992. [5]
Bried then attended Pennsylvania State University’s Donald P. Bellisario College of Communications, [6] where she graduated with a degree in advertising in 1996. [7] [8]
Between 1997 and 2015 Bried worked at Condé Nast as an editor at Glamour and then editor-at-large at Self. [9] She was also a writer and editor for Golf for Women, Women’s Health [10] and Good Housekeeping. [11]
Bried decided to create Kazoo magazine in 2016 in response to a shopping trip with her 5-year old daughter, where the covers of the girls’ magazines they looked at “all had dolls, lip gloss and princesses on them; they all had articles about ‘how to get pretty hair, how to have good manners’". [12] In creating a print-only magazine, Bried saw the “magazine as an opportunity to politicize girls at a critical moment in their lives, to ‘shore up their foundation’ of empowerment before the pressures of patriarchy set in during adolescence.” [13]
Bried is the only full-time staff member of the magazine, she writes everything except the fiction. [14] On behalf of Kazoo she has appeared on Today, Better TV and NPR. [15]
Bried launched a Kickstarter campaign in March 2016, with the aim of raising US$150,000. Two of Bried’s friends, both filmmakers, made a launch video that “went viral” and Neil Gaiman and Roxane Gay tweeted about it. [16] Within 30 days the campaign had raised $171,215 from 3,000 people. [17] At that point, it was the highest funded journalism campaign on Kickstarter (this record has since been superseded). [18] Almost one third of the donations came from first-time backers. [19]
Bried has published or edited the following books:
In 2022, Bried was named a Parkland School District Education Foundation Distinguished Alumna and her name was added to its Wall of Honor. [24]
As a student at Penn State, Bried met Holly Bemiss. In 1997, they moved to New York City [25] and married in 2008 at Prospect Park, Brooklyn. [26] A photo of Bried and Bemiss at their wedding ceremony appeared on the cover of New York Magazine’s 2008 winter issue. [27] [28] Bemiss is a literary agent. They have two children. [29]
Erin Bried | |
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![]() Bried with her National Magazine Award in 2019 | |
Born | Allentown, Pennsylvania, U.S. |
Education | Pennsylvania State University |
Known for | Editor-in-chief, Kazoo magazine |
Spouse | Holly Bemiss m. 2008 |
Children | 2 |
Website | kazoomagazine.com |
Erin Bried is an American publisher, author, and the founder and editor-in-chief of Kazoo magazine, the first children’s magazine to win the National Magazine Award for General Excellence, in 2019. [1] She is the author of three books, including How to Sew a Button: and other Nifty Things Your Grandmother Knew.
Bried was born in Allentown, Pennsylvania, to William Bried, a lawyer, and Claire Bried, a teacher. [2] She attended Parkland High School in South Whitehall Township, Pennsylvania [3] where she was captain of the soccer team in her senior year [4] and was nominated for the first "Soccer Scholar Athlete Award" from the Eastern Pennsylvania Conference in 1992. [5]
Bried then attended Pennsylvania State University’s Donald P. Bellisario College of Communications, [6] where she graduated with a degree in advertising in 1996. [7] [8]
Between 1997 and 2015 Bried worked at Condé Nast as an editor at Glamour and then editor-at-large at Self. [9] She was also a writer and editor for Golf for Women, Women’s Health [10] and Good Housekeeping. [11]
Bried decided to create Kazoo magazine in 2016 in response to a shopping trip with her 5-year old daughter, where the covers of the girls’ magazines they looked at “all had dolls, lip gloss and princesses on them; they all had articles about ‘how to get pretty hair, how to have good manners’". [12] In creating a print-only magazine, Bried saw the “magazine as an opportunity to politicize girls at a critical moment in their lives, to ‘shore up their foundation’ of empowerment before the pressures of patriarchy set in during adolescence.” [13]
Bried is the only full-time staff member of the magazine, she writes everything except the fiction. [14] On behalf of Kazoo she has appeared on Today, Better TV and NPR. [15]
Bried launched a Kickstarter campaign in March 2016, with the aim of raising US$150,000. Two of Bried’s friends, both filmmakers, made a launch video that “went viral” and Neil Gaiman and Roxane Gay tweeted about it. [16] Within 30 days the campaign had raised $171,215 from 3,000 people. [17] At that point, it was the highest funded journalism campaign on Kickstarter (this record has since been superseded). [18] Almost one third of the donations came from first-time backers. [19]
Bried has published or edited the following books:
In 2022, Bried was named a Parkland School District Education Foundation Distinguished Alumna and her name was added to its Wall of Honor. [24]
As a student at Penn State, Bried met Holly Bemiss. In 1997, they moved to New York City [25] and married in 2008 at Prospect Park, Brooklyn. [26] A photo of Bried and Bemiss at their wedding ceremony appeared on the cover of New York Magazine’s 2008 winter issue. [27] [28] Bemiss is a literary agent. They have two children. [29]