Amy Mackelden

Amy Mackelden is a contributing editor at Marie Claire, where she covers celebrity and royal family news. She was the weekend editor at Harper’s BAZAAR for three years, where she covered breaking celebrity and entertainment news, royal stories, fashion, beauty, and politics. Prior to that, she spent a year as the joint weekend editor for Marie Claire, ELLE, and Harper's BAZAAR, and two years as an entertainment writer at Bustle. Her additional bylines include Cosmopolitan, People, The Independent, HelloGiggles, Biography, Shondaland, Best Products, New Statesman, Heat, xoJane, and The Guardian. Her work has been syndicated by publications including Town Country, Good Housekeeping, Esquire, Delish, Oprah Daily, Country Living, and Women's Health. Her celebrity interviews include Jennifer Aniston, Jessica Chastain, the cast of Selling Sunset, Emma Thompson, Jessica Alba, and Penn Badgley. In 2015, she delivered an academic paper at Kimposium, the world's first Kardashian conference, and had an essay published in Routledge's HBO's Original Voices: Race, Gender, Sexuality and Power.

As a woman living with multiple sclerosis, ADHD, anxiety, and PCOS, Amy has written extensively about health and wellness. Her health bylines include Forbes, SingleCare, Healthline, MS Society, MS Trust, ZocDoc, Pillpack, HelloFlo, Greatist, Bezzy, and Byrdie, and she co-edited poetry collection The Emma Press Anthology of Illness. She holds an MA in Creative Writing and a BA in English Literature from Cardiff University. She also has a teaching qualification from Sunderland University and undertook Columbia University's short course in narrative medicine in 2019. Her prose poetry won a Northern Promise Award from New Writing North in 2011, and she co-founded international poetry journal Butcher's Dog. She has received multiple grants from Arts Council England to develop her creative work. She loves horror movies, trashy reality TV, true crime documentaries, shouting about disability rights, and an unhealthy amount of pop music.