I’m a writer based in Los Angeles. I’ve written about arts and culture for the Los Angeles Times, Rolling Stone, New York Times, Elle, Washington Post, and many other publications.
My debut novel, Neon Green, published by Unnamed Press, was shortlisted for the VCU Cabell First Novelist Award, and was praised as “witty and entertaining” by the Los Angeles Times. My favorite review in Electric Lit, by Luke Geddes, said: “Under Wappler’s scrutinizing authorial eye, 1994 is a specific and very real moment in time… With evocative detail and restraint her novel depicts life in the nineties as it was actually lived — that is, with the slight addition of spaceships from Jupiter.”
My hybrid biography-memoir, A Good Bad Boy: Luke Perry and How a Generation Grew Up, was excerpted in Vanity Fair and featured in People. The Washington Post praised it as “raw and frequently moving,” and Kirkus Reviews called it “a gift for Perry and ‘90210’ fans.”
As a ghostwriter and a bylined journalist, I’ve interviewed many notable creatives and icons, including Serena Williams, Kristen Stewart, Daft Punk, Ozzy Osbourne, Amy Adams, and Margaret Atwood. I was also a regular panelist on Pop Rocket, a weekly pop culture podcast that ran from 2015-2019.
Previously I was on staff at the Los Angeles Times, covering music, books, film and TV. My essays have appeared in the anthologies Slouching Towards Los Angeles: Living and Writing by Joan Didion’s Light, Mothers Before, Here She Comes Now and Yes Is the Answer.