Lauren Beach is an associate commerce editor at Bustle Digital Group, where she writes and edits shoppable content across all BDG brands including Bustle, Elite Daily, Mic, Inverse, and The Zoe Report.

Before joining Bustle full-time, she was an affiliate shopping writer for Scary Mommy and Fatherly and a food and dining feature writer for Tasting Table. She has also been published on Screen Rant. She previously worked as a content manager and writer at a food allergy app. She started her career as an intern at the Harn Museum of Art and later as an associate writer and editor at a B2B tech company. She has a BA from the University of Florida.

When she’s not editing and researching products, she’s baking, reading, hiking, and obsessively drinking iced lattes. She recently moved to the Columbus, Ohio area from Florida with her family, dogs, and numerous plants.