Anna Venarchik is a breaking news intern for The Daily Beast. She’s currently a graduate journalism student at New York University, where she's studying literary reportage. She has been a podcasting fellow at NYU's Production Lab and a reporting intern at Bedford + Bowery. Her work has also appeared in McSweeney’s Internet Tendency and The Belladonna. Before becoming a journalist, she taught high school literature in Chicago. You can reach her at anna.venarchik@thedailybeast.com.