Anna Kodé

Anna Kodé is a features reporter with The New York Times, where she covers the intersection of culture and real estate. Her reporting has taken her to Mattel’s Barbie archives, Joan Didion’s estate sale and a town for spiritualist mediums. Two years in a row, she’s won silver awards from the National Association of Real Estate Editors for best architecture story — for her reporting on the cultural significance of stainless steel fences and the rise of “anytown architecture.” She’s passionate about stories that are hidden in plain sight and allow us to re-examine subjects we thought we already knew.

Anna started at The Times in 2021 as a reporting fellow on the Styles section, where she wrote about fashion, youth trends and internet culture. Prior to that, she worked as a fact checker at Time Magazine. Anna graduated from Cornell University in 2019, and grew up between upstate New York and Hyderabad, India.