Better nights, clearer days.
An evening magazine about rest and attention, and the things people bring home to help with them: a mouth tape, a red light, a silk pillowcase, a powder stirred into warm milk. We ask what each one actually does.
Nine issues, night by night.
Well with Luna launched in the autumn of 2024 as the evening title of VOL Collective, the independent editorial studio in New York. The first issue carried eight interviews with founders who started with their own bad nights.
We never promise sleep, never shame anyone for a screen in bed, and never treat a tracker score as the measure of a night. We describe plainly what a device emits, blocks or measures, and what a supplement contains and in what amount, and we say it may help some people when that is what the evidence says.
Today 39,100 people read Well with Luna each month, most of them in the US, and 10,900 get The Nightcap on Sunday evenings. Fifty-eight percent read us in bed, and our busiest hour is between 9 and 10 p.m. Eastern. We write for that hour.
The people behind Well with Luna
Daniel Mercer
Publisher & Editorial Director
Natalie Hayes
Editor-in-Chief
Vivian Hart
Executive Editor
Ramin Vandi
Director of Features & PartnershipsKathryn Ingram
Deputy EditorElliot Maddox
Commissioning EditorMelanie Anderson
Science EditorHailey Norris
Wellness EditorMargaret Garrett
Fact-checkerRenee Vaughn
Contributing EditorWhitney Cross
Copy EditorAnna Hawkins
Associate EditorGrace Sawyer
Art DirectorCamille Tanaka
Picture ResearcherPriya Monroe
Social EditorNathan Coleman
Newsletter EditorTara Whelan
Features EditorCourtney Belknap
Features EditorAnnika Holm
Features EditorWell with Luna, year by year
- 2023
VOL Collective begins
VOL Collective publishes its first interview in New York. Founders who speak openly about their own bad nights go on a list.
- 2024
Issue 01
Well with Luna launches in the autumn with eight interviews with founders who built something for their own bad nights.
- 2025
The Nightcap
The Sunday newsletter passes 7,000 subscribers, and our reader survey finds that 58 percent of readers read us in bed.
- 2026
Issue 09 and the first Late Edition
The evening guides launch in July, with the bedroom audit following in August. With 39,100 readers a month, we open the first Late Edition: an evening reading room in New York with the founders from this issue, lights dimmed at ten.
