Jessica Leigh Mattern is the Senior Amazon Commerce Editor at Dotdash Meredith with eight years of experience covering shopping, sales, product reviews, and trend reporting for PEOPLE, Real Simple, InStyle, and Southern Living. She's the first of her kind in the commerce space, specializing in Amazon, the largest retailer in existence. At Dotdash Meredith, she tests hundreds of products a year, writes the recurring I Shop Amazon for a Living series, and covers the latest shopping news for People.com, while leading a team of reporters who do the same. She's passionate about empowering readers through stories that inform and inspire, and she hopes to spend her career studying the intersection of culture and shopping. Jessica has also contributed hundreds of articles in the lifestyle space with an expertise over all things shopping, including product launches, brand news, consumer trends, sales and savings. She completed her masters in Magazines, Newspapers, and Online Journalism at the S.I. Newhouse School of Public Communications at Syracuse University in 2015. Prior to that, studied Fashion Design and Merchandising at Drexel University in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania and graduated Magna Cum Laude.

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