Taddeo was an associate editor at Golf Magazine when David Granger assigned her first piece for Esquire, "The Last Days of Heath Ledger",[8] after reading her unpublished novel.[9]
In 2015 The Washington Post named her New York Magazine piece, "Rachel Uchitel is Not A Madam",[10] one of their top five long reads that stand the test of time.[11]
In 2013 she appeared in Esquire Network's 80th Anniversary special.[12]
She was awarded the William Holodnok Fiction Prize and the Florence Engel Randall Award in fiction.[13]
Taddeo is a two-time recipient of the Pushcart Prize, for her short stories "42 (2017)", published in the New England Review,[14][15][16] and "Suburban Weekend (2019)", published in Granta.[17]
Her book Three Women was released in July 2019 by Simon and Schuster.[18] In June 2020 it won the narrative non-fiction book of the year at the British Book Awards.[19]
Animal, Taddeo's debut novel, was published by Avid Reader Press in the summer of 2021, and is about "both sisterhood and female rage..."[20]
Her third book, Ghost Lover, is a collection of nine short stories published in 2022 by Avid Reader Press.[21]
