Kathleen Hou is the award-winning Beauty Director at ELLE Magazine. Previously, she was the Beauty Director at New York Magazine’s fashion site, The Cut. Her work has appeared in Vogue India and Stylist France. She has been featured on NPR and Cheddar, and in Allure, Condé Nast Traveler, Business of Fashion and Vogue Business. Her 2021 essay Swallowing Bitterness went viral, and inspired collective action in anti-Asian hate movement. She was also a co-founder of Donate Beauty, a grassroots project which donated over 425,000 beauty products to thousands of healthcare workers at the beginning of the 2020 pandemic.

She started her editorial career as a business editor. She is a probably the only writer to have had the privilege of interviewing both Eugene Fama and Snooki in the same day. 

E-mail: Kathleen.Hou@gmail.com

Instagram: @KathleenHou