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Hannah Orenstein

Bio

Hannah Orenstein is the Senior Dating Editor at Elite Daily, where she leads coverage of single life, dating, relationships, breakups, sex, sexuality, and celebrity relationships. She's also the author of Playing with Matches (Touchstone Books, 2018), Love at First Like (Atria Books, 2019), and a forthcoming third novel (Atria Books, 2020). Previously, she worked a writer and editor at Seventeen.com and as a matchmaker for a dating service in New York City. Her work has been published in The Boston Globe, The New York Post, The Washington Post, The Cut, Refinery29, Us Weekly, and more. She loves books, great cheese plates, and her fat cat, Eloise. She lives in Brooklyn. Follow her on Instagram and Twitter at @hannahorens.

Is Being “Chill” While Dating Actually Effective? The Answer Isn’t That Surprising

Dating is more complicated than ever right now: You can be benched, breadcrumbed, and ghosted by your Tinder match... all in the same week. And even when a great first date gives you butterflies, knowing what to do next can be confusing AF. Luckily,…

This Couple Met On An Christian Dating App & Got Married Four Months Later

Are you dying to know what a couple's relationship is really like? Elite Daily's new series, ILYSM, celebrates couples who met on dating apps and dives into the inner workings of their relationships. How did they know they were falling for each…

Sorry, Becoming “Instagram Official” Isn’t A Thing Anymore

Once upon a time, if you fought through a sea of Hinge profiles and Solo cup-wielding single people and found someone cute who also thought you were cute, you'd make the relationship official. You'd DTR, pose for a pic together, and post it on…

Here’s Why It Feels So Hard To Get Past The First Date

Dating is more complicated than ever right now: you can be benched, breadcrumbed, and ghosted by your Tinder match... all in the same week. And even when a great first date gives you butterflies, knowing what to do next can be confusing AF. Luckily,…

This Couple In NYC Met On JSwipe & DTRed After Just One Week

Are you dying to know what a couple's relationship is really like? Elite Daily's new series, ILYSM, celebrates couples who met on dating apps and dives into the inner workings of their relationships. How did they know they were falling for each…

Sophie Turner & Joe Jonas Tied The Knot For The Second Time

They're married — again! Following their Las Vegas chapel ceremony on May 1, Joe Jonas and Sophie Turner's wedding in France on Saturday, June 29 proves that two sets of nuptials are twice as nice. According to Vogue, the Happiness Begins singer and…

Prince Philip Reportedly Told Harry Not To Marry Meghan, So, Uh, Awk

Finding the love of your life is hard enough. And depending on the circumstances, getting your family's wholehearted approval can be even trickier. Prince Philip's reported quote about Prince Harry not marrying Meghan Markle proves exactly how tough…

I Went On A Date-cation With My Boyfriend & It Helped Us Feel So Much Closer

After I returned from a week-long vacation with my family in Maine last August, I felt relaxed, refreshed, and completely stuffed with roasted marshmallows. But as blissful as the trip had been, I spent most of it terribly missing my boyfriend,…

I Was A Professional Matchmaker & It's The Best Career Move I Ever Made

I can't remember a time I didn't want to write for magazines. In middle school, I scrawled editorial suggestions in glitter gel pen in the margins of J-14, and I cut up issues of Teen Vogue to make collages to hang on my bedroom walls. So, when I…

Meghan & Harry's Body Language As New Parents Is So Freaking Joyful

The royal baby's arrival is bringing me so much joy, so I can't even imagine how the Duke and Duchess of Sussex feel. Meghan Markle and Prince Harry's body language as new parents tells the full story, though, and it's one of sheer exuberance, joy,…