Meet Phoebe Smith, the professional bedtime-story writer

Most authors would cringe if readers told them their work put them to sleep and that they never reached their stories' end.

Phoebe Smith, however, is not most authors.

She writes “sleep stories” for the app Calm — in other words, her goal is actually to help readers (or, rather, listeners) nod off.

Learn more about what that’s like for a writer and how Smith found this gig in the Guardian.