Hi, I'm Karissa, a people- and product-oriented, detail-obsessed storyteller, strategist, and creative from Los Angeles. I graduated from the University of California, Berkeley with degrees in English literature and economics. I currently live and work in New York City, where I remain, as ever, a voracious reader, avid vintage shopper, and very fast walker.*
Get in touch at karissafho@gmail.com.
Reading
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Passengers (2026) by Alexander Maksik
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May We Feed the King (2026) by Rebecca Perry
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Shanghai Faithful (2017) by Jennifer Lin
Listening
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A smoooooth Guinness at Griffins of Kinsale with my dad
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Watched Last Seen with my parents and we all thought it was good; watched You Can See Everything with my parents also and we all were entertained
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The art of the handwritten thank you note
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See archive here
*I like the first Jason Bourne movie, Pearl Jam, weddings, Georgia O'Keeffe's flowers, Joan Didion's essays, Munch's woodcuts, Magritte's weird neighborhoods, and Cezanne's "unfinished" landscapes. I drink mostly hot water, write long letters to my friends, do my best work very late at night, and am almost always cold. I strongly dislike coffee, slow drivers, sycophants, and spiders.