About Olivia Gordon

Olivia Gordon cut her teeth as a features writer on women's magazine Real.

As a successful freelance journalist since 2006, she has written for Sunday Times Style, Times Weekend, Sunday Telegraph Stella and the Observer, as well as T2, G2, the Daily Telegraph, the Independent, the Mail and the Express. She has written for women’s magazines including Red, She, Marie Claire, Woman & Home, Grazia, Prima, Brides, Cosmo Bride, Psychologies, First, Shape, Allaboutyou.com and New Woman, as well as many other magazines from Wired to Sweet.

Olivia is also a published author, and does copywriting and editing as well as the occasional in-house shift on women’s magazines.


She is a part-time lecturer in Journalism at London Metropolitan University.

Read some of Olivia’s work online:

Are British women really more depressed than ever? An investigation of the unhappiness industry.

Why Olivia loves trash TV

Why child beauty salons are booming

What it’s like to try a Mooncup?

* Photo taken by Nina Hollington.