Payton Turkeltaub is a writer based in Chicago.

Currently, she is a graduate student at Northwestern University's Medill School of Journalism specializing in Magazine Journalism. Previously, she worked at Worth Media Group as a marketing coordinator and contributed to V Magazine.

In 2023, she graduated from New York University where she majored in Media, Culture and Communication and minored in the Business of Entertainment, Media and Technology. She was awarded high honors for her thesis, “The Advice Podcast as a Monitoring Technology.”