Caroline Fanning is a writer, editor, researcher, fact-checker, and digital nomad from the Jersey Shore. She has written about an Indiana town where people spend the year teaching one another circus tricks, a Louisiana tattoo shop that became a by-hook-or-crook free store during the pandemic, and a bush pilot who airdrops frozen turkeys to off-the-grid Alaskans during the holidays. She is generally fascinated by the unique challenges posed to varying communities and the ingenuity of people who organize to overcome them.

For Reader's Digest, she investigates just that as content lead of Nicest Places in America, the brand's tallest editorial tentpole that highlights places all over the country where people work together to make life better for everyone. She has launched columns like We Found a Fix, offering unexpected solutions to everyday problems, and the RD List, recommending the movies, TV, books, and podcasts you should consume this month if you only have time for one. She has written cover stories and special packages (like the Reader's Digest centennial) and edited departments and sections. 

Play the ORBISCULATE Challenge, her original, signature word game created for Reader's Digest. (Online version TK). And ask her about the hosting company Zoom birthday parties to filming jokes for its Instagram Reels to recording demos for its inaugural podcast pipeline.  

Her work has appeared in Reader's Digest, Reader's Digest International, Reader's Digest Canada, and CityLifestyle Long Branch, as well as on RD.com and TheHealthy.com. Her favorite places in the world are Cusco, San Blas, Denver, Brooklyn, and Asbury Park, and she is always looking for reasons to go back (give her one). Last we heard she is somewhere in Andes but let us check.

There is someone walking around the state of Washington with one of her stories tattooed on their bicep.