Quinn Moreland Interview
Quinn Moreland is a freelance culture writer. She is a former staff writer at Pitchfork, where she worked from 2015 to 2022. Her writing has appeared in The Nation, Bookforum, and more.
How did you get to where you are today, professionally?
I studied art history at college and began blogging about music the summer before my junior year while interning at Dia Beacon. I can’t remember exactly how this happened, but I began writing for The Le Sigh, a website that highlighted female identifying, non-binary, and trans creatives. While doing that I was booking shows at my college and writing about DIY stuff for the website Impose, which apparently still exists? As a result of all of those activities, I was pretty entrenched in certain communities that were attracting increasing attention.
I moved to Brooklyn in the fall of 2015 after graduating. I had just started a full-time (I think?) gig at Impose but was laid off almost immediately for reasons that remain a mystery. I was living at a DIY venue called the Silent Barn and my roommate was a contributor at the late great Rookie. They connected me with Jessica Hopper who helped me land a fellowship at Pitchfork. I started a month or so after Pitchfork was acquired by Condé Nast, although we worked out of an office in Greenpoint for the next year or so.