Anya Tchoupakov
Hey there.
I'm Anya—I deal in words. I grew up trilingual, and have loved the very concept of language from a young age. My parents are ballet teachers, so wherever the work took them, I came along, picking up snippets of other languages and cultures along the way. From Romania to Japan, whether for a month or a year, we lived like locals and picked up cuisines and idioms that made our everyday dinner table look like a world map. This international-artistic upbringing underpins everything I do.
Almost as soon as I learned English, my Russian immigrant parents and their friends began to use me as a personal editor. I proofread and edited every word of their emails, report cards, articles, and papers. What started out as a childhood chore has become a passion and a career. Though I can't really put it on my resumé, I've been editing for over a decade.
My professional skills have been honed most significantly at VICE, where I became an article-pumping machine and learned that research will get you everywhere; at Dirt, where I fell in love with the food world and the people in it; at Bon Appétit, where my excitement about it grew ever stronger and pushed me into the kitchen myself; and finally, at Off Assignment, where I’ve found myself flourishing in a leadership position and taking on professional adventures I’d never have imagined.
If you’re interested in working together, this site holds my writing clips, my resumé, my editing testimonials, my contact info—the works. Talk soon.
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