Sarah Nicole Prickett

Sarah Nicole Prickett is a journalist, art critic and editor. She is the founder and editor-in-chief of Adult, an arts and criticism magazine that launched in 2013.

Early life

Prickett was born in London, Ontario. She lived in Toronto, then moved to New York in 2012.

Career

Prickett is a contributing editor at The New Inquiry and the founding editor of Adult Magazine. She has written on a number of topics including gender, sexual violence, clothes as memory, food, bipolar female memoirs, Instagram and envy, Aaron Sorkin and Miley Cyrus.

In 2014, T Magazine recommended Prickett's Tumblr in a weekly list of "five captivating online destinations you should be visiting often," noting she answers "anything you want to ask her on matters ranging from fledgling writing careers to shopping. She'll offer a personal opinion about anything and everything, especially topics that are rated NC-17."

In 2016, Brooklyn Magazine named Prickett as one of the "100 Most Influential People in Brooklyn Culture," citing her work on Adult as well as her writing for Hazlitt, Bookforum, Artforum, and T Magazine. The New York Times cited her alongside Justin Bieber, Ryan Gosling, and Grimes as one of seventeen public figures responsible for making Canada "hip."

Later that year, Billboard announced that Prickett had been named an editor at Real Life, a new magazine on culture and technology.

Works

• "How to get under Aaron Sorkin’s skin (and also, how to high-five properly)" (The Globe and Mail, 23 June 2012)
• "A Woman Under the Influence" (The New Inquiry, 30 April 2013)

• "Money, Cash, Picassos" (Artforum, 12 July 2013)

• "Sign of the Times: Look Out, It’s Instagram Envy" (T Magazine, 6 November 2013)

• "Real Talk" (Artforum, 9 December 2013)
• "Your Friends and Rapists" (Medium, 16 December 2013)

• "Miley Cyrus: Tongue Tied" (Nowness, 1 May 2014)
• "The Ultimate Humiliation" (n+1, 30 May 2014)

• "Head of the Class" (Artforum, 1 October 2014)