About Leah

You're as likely to find Dallas-native Leah Shafer tasting her way through changes in Nordic cuisine as driving to Mexico and documenting illegal prescription drug import. She's a well-versed writer and podcaster who freelances for newspapers, magazines, and websites.

Leah is a dating and humor columnist and podcaster for Quick, a weekday product of the Dallas Morning News. You can see that work here.

Leah Shafer Leah's work has earned her several awards, and has appeared in O at Home, American Way, AAA Texas Magazine, Modern Bride, The Meeting Professional, and an unwieldy pile of other publications she stores in a box in her closet.

She has a degree in journalism from the University of Texas at Austin and eight years full-time experience as an ink slinger.

Leah is privileged to serve several nonprofits in Dallas.

In her free time, she is a devoted reader, cook, creative geek, and lover of all things small and furry. Except possums. They are too mean to love.

What people say about Leah?

"Leah is a terrific writer with a range that covers the arts, relationships, features, design, and even hard news. She can write short for newspapers, she can write long for magazines, and -- as her many fans around Dallas know from her weekly column in Quick -- she can always write funny. She also has a sharp eye for taking opportunities to expand the usual writer-reader relationship beyond the old newspaper model: starting a weekly podcast, for instance, or arranging meetings of her readers out in the real world." --Joshua Benton , director of the Nieman Digital Journalism Project at the Nieman Foundation at Harvard University

 

"Leah is an excellent writer who is accommodating and flexible to the schedule of folks she is going to interview. She produces quality work that's I'm proud to show to my friends and family. She is direct with her questions but again, very flexible on the answers. She's open, in other words. And very easy to talk to." –Sarah Jane Semrad, social entrepreneur and co-founder of LaReunion Texas

 

"Leah's freelance content has enriched our entertainment and features section greatly. From her humorous weekly columns on dating and womanhood to her thoughtful pieces on local dining, she's helped further define Quick's voice in the community and brought many new readers to us." –Hunter Hauk, entertainment editor, Quick

Want to know more? Send her an e-mail at lashafer@gmail.com.