Corinne Lestch is a lifelong New Yorker with more than a decade of experience as a journalist. She is currently a Deputy Editor at Forbes, where she helps oversee content from a global network of contributors and creates and leads reporting seminars.
During her career she has covered stories on topics ranging from the unsung scientists behind the Covid vaccines to the unregulated industry of life coaches. Her work has also appeared in The St. Louis Post-Dispatch, The Washington Post, The London Reader and elsewhere. She reported on breaking news, education and City Hall from 2010 to 2014 for the New York Daily News, during which she received two reporting fellowships from John Jay College of Criminal Justice and earned a Front Page Award from the Newswomen’s Club of New York for Beat Reporting.
Her fiction has been nominated for Pushcart Prizes and her short story “EDP” was selected as a finalist for Narrative Magazine’s 30 Below contest. She holds a bachelor’s degree in Journalism from Northwestern University and a master’s of Fine Arts from Columbia University, where she was awarded a fellowship to teach a fiction workshop.
She has also taught journalism and writing at The School of the New York Times, Borough of Manhattan Community College, Columbia University’s Summer Program for High School Students, Rikers Island and Marian House, a Baltimore-based organization for women healing from addiction, abuse and homelessness.
She is currently at work on a novel.
Reach out at corinne [dot] lestch [at] gmail [dot] com