Just days after her open letter, Marnell was hired by Vice for a column called ' Amphetamine Logic'. Her position was controversial – Anna David at The Fix wrote that Marnell 'wins applause for her bravery' in speaking openly about drug use, while Hamilton Nolan at Gawker described her as a ' dust-smoking suicidal narcissist downtown swinger beauty columnist'. She first received widespread attention when she wrote about using emergency contraception as her primary birth control, which spread through Twitter. Her writing was 'shrouded in irreverent yet deeply personal anecdotes' with frequent references to her drug use, hospitalizations, and mental illnesses. Shortly after being released, she was hired by Jane Pratt to become beauty and health director of XoJane. After overdosing in her apartment and spending two weeks at Bellevue in 2011, she said she 'vowed never, ever to lie to a job again: they could take me or leave me with my drug stuff.' XoJane She worked at Lucky for two and a half years before quitting after failed attempts at sobriety. She attended rehab in Connecticut for a month, and when she returned she was promoted to associate beauty editor. While attending The New School, Marnell interned at beauty magazines, eventually earning the title of beauty assistant at Lucky in 2007. After moving to New York, she attended The New School in Greenwich Village to study nonfiction writing. She finished high school at Emerson Preparatory School in Northwest Washington, D.C. She was a strong student academically, but at 17 was expelled weeks before graduation. At 15, Marnell began attending Lawrence Academy in Groton, Massachusetts. Her mother is a psychotherapist and her father is a psychiatrist. Marnell was born on Septemin Washington, D.C. She is the author of the New York Times bestselling memoir How To Murder Your Life, which was published in 2017. She was a beauty editor at Lucky and XoJane, wrote a column for Vice, and has also written for Self, Nylon, and Glamour. Caitlin Elizabeth Marnell (born September 10, 1982) is an American writer and media commentator based in New York City.

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