Gyan Yankovich

About

Currently based in Sydney, Gyan is an Australian writer and editor with 15 years of editorial experience. Her debut non-fiction book, Just Friends, was published in Australia and the UK by Ultimo Press in 2024. The US edition, Friendship First, was published by The Experiment the same year.She is currently the Lifestyle Editor at the Sydney Morning Herald and The Age, where she oversees national lifestyle coverage across both mastheads and manages a team of editors and reporters.She was the Editor-In-Chief at Junkee Media, where she oversaw a 25-person editorial team working across Australian youth titles Junkee, Punkee, and AWOL. And previously, she was located in New York where she was Managing Editor at Man Repeller and a Senior Lifestyle Editor at BuzzFeed. She has written for Vox, New York Magazine's The Cut, SELF magazine, The Guardian, VICE, Lifehacker, Cosmopolitan, Refinery29, and more.She's miraculously managed to secure the @GyanYankovich handle pretty much everywhere you might be looking for her.