Joanna Coles is the chief content officer of Hearst Magazines and serves on the board of Snap Inc. She is the executive producer of The Bold Type on Freeform, a scripted show inspired by her life as a magazine editor, and starred in the docuseries So Cosmo on E!. Born in the United Kingdom, Coles was the New York correspondent for the Guardian and the Times of London before joining Hearst as editor in chief of Marie Claire.?She was editor in chief of Cosmopolitan from 2012 to 2016. She lives in New York.
Coles led Cosmo from sex tips and quizzes to its current era of also covering politics, the wage gap, domestic violence and gun control. Correspondingly, her book is fun, unflinchingly honest and incredibly serious.... There?s no finger-wagging or single-shaming here.(Washington Post) At long last, a book that provides a concrete, easy-to-navigate road map to finding love and does so with all the whip-smart insight, humor, and wit you?d expect from Joanna Coles. Love Rules is going to have a huge impact on so many people.(Arianna Huffington) Generally, you never want to take emotional advice from a British person. Joanna Coles is the very rare exception to that rule.(John Oliver)