1. Scaachi Koul was born on February 7,1991 and is a Canadian former culture writer at BuzzFeed Canada.
13 Facts About Scaachi Koul
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Scaachi Koul is the author of the book of essays One Day We'll All Be Dead and None of This Will Matter and was one of the reporters in BuzzFeed's Netflix documentary series Follow This.
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Scaachi Koul's writing has appeared in Flare, HuffPost Canada, The Thought Catalog, The Guardian, The New Yorker, The New York Times, The Globe and Mail, and other publications.
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Scaachi Koul freelanced while still at the Ryerson School of Journalism where she wrote for Maclean's from 2009 up until her graduation at the end of 2012.
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In March 2015, while Scaachi Koul was still employed by Penguin Random House Canada, they announced publication of a collection of her essays.
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Scaachi Koul discusses her writing career and social media, including temporarily deactivating her Twitter account as a result of invective and threats following a request for long-form submissions from people who were "not white and not male".
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Scaachi Koul was praised for her wit and humour, ability to mix sarcasm and sentimentality, and for her effective use of confessional writing as a complement to analytical rigour.
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Scaachi Koul received a shortlisted nomination for the 2018 Stephen Leacock Award for the best book of humour written in English by a Canadian writer.
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In May 2023, Scaachi Koul revealed in a Huffington Post article that she was investigating former pornographic film franchise Girls Gone Wild and its founder Joe Francis.
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Scaachi Koul revealed that she had interviewed Francis for nine hours at a home he had in Punta Mita, Mexico.
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Scaachi Koul was born to Indian parents and raised in Calgary, Alberta.
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Scaachi Koul was a member of the Girl Guides of Canada and participated in their youth programs.
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Scaachi Koul is an Indian-Canadian of Kashmiri descent, and her writing on race and shadism draws from her own life.