ABOUT
Sophie Yun Mancini is a New York-based writer, editor, and creative consultant.
Currently, she is Deputy Editor of Dossier Magazine, the critically acclaimed journal she helped relaunch in 2024 as a luxury travel and culture publication. Before that, she helped relaunch Departures Magazine under the New York Times’ creative agency, where she then became the food editor. Following that, she helmed editorial at travel company Prior as its managing editor.
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She has traveled by air, land, and lake to profile chef Francis Mallmann on his island in Patagonia, interviewed architect Bjarke Ingels on saving Manhattan from flooding, fashion designer Gabriela Hearst as creative director of Chloé, chef Daniel Humm when he turned Eleven Madison Park plant-based, nightlife legend Ian Schrager in a return to Studio 54, and director Steven Soderbergh on his life in spirits. She’s covered Seoul’s art scene, spent a week in Copenhagen with Noma, and explored the jungles of Belize guided by the philosophies Francis Ford Coppola gave her.
Her work has appeared in Air Mail, Condé Nast Traveler, Elle, Family Style, Monocle, Vogue, W Magazine, and the Wall Street Journal. She's consulted on book and brand projects for groups such as Eleven Madison Park, Mattos Hospitality, Polonsky & Friends, and The New York Times’ creative agency.
She’s commissioned and shaped hundreds of stories — editing best-selling authors to burgeoning writers, created and ran columns across all facets of culture, and managed a network of over 40 writers at once.