Georgia Cassimatis is an Australian journalist of Greek and British origins. She has worked on numerous internationally known magazines.

Biography

Georgia Cassimatis was born in Australia

Australia

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She completed a Bachelor of Arts degree, majoring in English and Italian, at the University of Sydney. While there, she also won the Honi Soit comedy writing award.
She followed her BA with a Masters degree in Journalism at the University of Technology, Sydney. While undertaking this degree, she won an award for her television documentary on politician Tanya Plibersek

Tanya Plibersek

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Cassimatis began her career as a writer with the Australia

Australia

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n Cosmopolitan

Cosmopolitan (magazine)

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magazine in 1996. She also freelanced for various magazines before being appointed editor of teen magazine Barbie. While working for Barbie she decided to move to Los Angeles

Los Ángeles

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While based in Los Angeles, Georgia worked as a Los Angeles-based writer, reporting for various U.S.

United States

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 titles such as Glamour

Glamour (magazine)

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, Cosmopolitan

Cosmopolitan (magazine)

Cosmopolitan is an international magazine for women. It was first published in 1886 in the United States as a family magazine, was later transformed into a literary magazine and eventually became a women's magazine in the late 1960s...

, Teen and Marie Claire

Marie Claire

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. During this time, her work was syndicated internationally.

In 2010, Georgia returned to Australia and has continued to write for various publications, including GQ Australia. She is currently working on a book.