Ezra Lebovitz ’18
Staff Writer, The Harvard Crimson, 2018–present.
Courtney Cooperman ’16
Opinion Columnist, The Stanford Daily, 2016–2020.
Soven Bery ’15
Columnist, The Tufts Daily, 2015–2016.
SaVonne Anderson ’13
Editorial Intern, Mashable, 2016.
“Black Is Beautiful: A Commentary on Black Fetishization” (nonfiction), The Comma, 2015.
Contributing Writer, The Tempest, 2015.
“No More Shame” (nonfiction), For Harriet, 2015.
The Womanifesto (nonfiction), 2015.
Dillon Denehy ’13
Play by Heart: Mastering Music Without the Major (nonfiction), New Degree Press, 2018.
Charlotte Alter ’07
National Correspondent, TIME, 2014–present.
The Ones We’ve Been Waiting For: How a New Generation of Leaders Will Transform America (nonfiction), Viking, 2020.
Ben Cohen ’06
Sports Reporter, The Wall Street Journal, 2013–present.
The Hot Hand: The Mystery and Science of Streaks (nonfiction), Custom House, 2020.
Ben Purkert ’03
Editor, Back Draft, Guernica.
“I’m a Nervous Wreck When I Write Prose” (nonfiction), Catapult, 2021.
“A Violent End” (poetry), The Nation, 2021.
“The Only Conversation” (poetry), Jewish Currents, 2020.
“The Only Lesson” (poetry), The Believer, 2020.
“The Only World” (poetry), The Rumpus, 2020.
“The Only Museum” (poetry), Poetry Magazine, 2019.
For the Love of Endings (poetry), McNally Jackson, 2018.
“News” (poetry), The New Yorker, 2018.
“Being Jewy” (nonfiction), Guernica, 2017.
“Escape Plan #46” (poetry), Tin House, 2017.
“Raising the Dead” (nonfiction), Guernica, 2017.
“Dear Miss Gone” (poetry), Four Way Review, 2016.
“Is Poetry True or False?” (nonfiction), AGNI Online, 2016.
“Lessons in Humility” (poetry), The Literary Review, 2015.
“Natural Intelligence” (poetry), Boston Review, 2015.
Three poems, Narrative Magazine, 2014.
“Today Is Work” (poetry), The New Yorker, 2013.
Emily Weinstein ’99
Deputy Food Editor, The New York Times.
Editor, NYT Cooking.
James Beard Foundation Award, 2018.
Francis Lam ’94
Editor-at-Large, Clarkson Potter, Penguin Random House, 2013–present.
Host, The Splendid Table, American Public Media, 2017–present.
James Beard Foundation Award (Journalism/Humor) for “Recipes with Roots: The True Meaning of Turkey” in Cooking Light, 2017.
James Beard Foundation Award (Journalism/Column) for Eat in New York Times Magazine, 2017.
IACP Award for Food-Focused Column in New York Times Magazine, 2017.
James Beard Foundation Award (Journalism/Column) for Eat in New York Times Magazine, 2016.
IACP Award for Narrative Food Writing for “What Edna Lewis Knew” in New York Times Magazine, 2016.
IACP Award for Food Focused Column in New York Times Magazine, 2016.
James Beard Foundation Award (Journalism/Profile) for “A Day on Long Island with Alex Lee” in Lucky Peach, 2014.
Chloe Yelena Miller ’94
Writing Professor, University of Maryland, 2015–present.
Writing Adjunct, Fairleigh Dickinson University, 2006–present.
“205 Miles: How daily walks helped my son and me connect during Covid-19” (nonfiction), Washington Family, 2021.
“A Data Visualization of the Words from the Wall Art in your Airbnb” with Hans Noel, Greener Pastures, 2021.
“English Vocabulary: Eclipse,” “To Do or After,” “Scallion” & “Question of Love” (poetry), Cultural Daily, 2021.
“Pandemic Creative Writing Prompts For Parents of Kids Learning Virtually: The Me-Time You Deserve” (humor), Greener Pastures, 2021.
Viable (poetry), Lily Poetry Review Press, 2021.
DC Arts and Humanities Fellow, 2020.
“Mid-Thirties,” “Mothers,” & “Searching” (poetry), Bourgeon, 2020.
“Once Upon a Bell Tower There was Sky” (nonfiction), Ovunque Siamo, 2020.
“Things That Have Lost Their Charm” (humor), Greener Pastures, 2020.
“Almost Seven Months” (poetry), Crack the Spine, 2019.
“Cost Saving Advantages of Perimenopause” (humor), McSweeney’s, 2019.
“Guide to Baby’s First Year” & “Hahrt-break at Seven Months” (poetry), Gargoyle Magazine, 2019.
“Infant Girl Photo Shoot on Soft-focus Blanket” (humor), Defenestration, 2019.
“Sleep,” “Uniquely Human,” “Heat” & “Pregnancy” (poetry), Teacher Voice, 2019.
“There Are Things We Can’t Say” (nonfiction), Jellyfish Review, 2019.
“Three Weeks Early”, “I Knew” & “Reflex” (poetry), Two Cities Review, 2019.
“Your English Professor’s Inner Thoughts on Your Final Paper Topic” (humor), McSweeney’s, 2019.
“Accumulated Wisdom From the Mom With Kids Just a Little Bit Older Than Yours” (humor), McSweeney’s, 2018.
“Cement Foundation” (nonfiction), Entropy, 2018.
“Just Friends” (nonfiction), hip mama, 2018.
“Love Me As If We Were Alone in this World” & “Wasn’t” (poetry), Room, 2018.
“Silence” (poetry), Pittsburgh Poetry Review, 2016.
“Writing Rules” & “Carrying” (poetry), All We Can Hold: A Collection of Poetry on Motherhood, Sage Hill Press, 2016.
“Magari” (poetry), Pank, 2014.
“Prune,” “Great Aunt Dora To You (Before You)” & “Fertility on Ferragosto” (poetry), Graze, 2014.
“Before” (poetry), The Northern Virginia Review, 2013.
“Ciao, Ciao,” “Italian Vocabulary: Gravidanza,” & “Conjunctions” (poetry), Minerva Rising Literary Journal, 2013.
“Fierce Hunger,” “Awaken,” “Light,” & “Looking Out” (poetry), Anthem Journal, 2013.
“No” & “Returning Home” (poetry), Beltway Poetry Quarterly, 2013.
“No Infinitive” (poetry), The Dressing, 2013.
“Remote” (poetry), The Postcard Press, 2013.
Unrest (poetry), Finishing Line Press, 2013.
“Prayer Circle,” “With/out,” & “I write you into the distance” (poetry), 10×3 plus, 2012.
“Pop Rivet” (poetry), Narrative Magazine, 2011.
“Alzheimer’s Reversed Her” (poetry), Alimentum, 2010.
“Estate Sale Next Door” (poetry), Poem of the Week in Narrative Magazine, 2010.
“Cuban Customs Attempts to Confiscate her Mangoes” (poetry), Narrative Magazine, 2010.
“Cemetery” Narrative Magazine (2010)
“Adea” (poetry), PoetSpeak, 2010.
“Nest” (poetry), Lines & Stars, 2010.
“CHARGE Syndrome” & “How to make ribollita” (poetry), The Old West Side Newsletter, 2009.
“Color of the Sea” (poetry), The Cortland Review, 2009.
“Salty” (poetry), Philadelphia Marriage Examiner, 2009.
“Will you” (poetry), Storyscape Journal (Vol. 1, Issue 2), 2008.
“To Learn” (poetry), The Poetry of Place: North Jersey in Poetry, 2008.
“Sundays in Newark, 1936” (poetry), Alimentum, 2007.
“Thirst” (poetry), Sink Review, 2007.
“Water Lily” (poetry), South Mountain Poets Chapbook, 2007.
“Teresa serves dinner at 20:00” (poetry), Conte: Journal of Narrative Writing, 2006.
“Question of Return” (poetry), Lumina Magazine, 2004.
“Spring Pool Water,” “Noisier Than the Milk” & “Statue of Liberty, 1890” (poetry), SpiralBridge, 2004.
Salamishah Tillet ’92
Henry Rutgers Professor of Creative Writing and African American and African Studies, Rutgers University – Newark.
New Arts Justice, Founder.
Contributing Critic-at-Large, The New York Times, 2015–present.
Andrew Carnegie Fellow, 2021.
“How the Studio Museum in Harlem Transformed the Art World Forever” (nonfiction), Harper’s BAZAAR, 2021.
In Search of the Color Purple: The Story of an American Masterpiece (nonfiction), Abrams, 2021.
Whiting Foundation Creative Nonfiction Fellow, 2021.
“‘I Wanted to Paint What I Know’: An Interview with Jordan Casteel” (nonfiction), The New York Review of Books, 2020.
Contributing Writer, Aperture, 2013–2020.
Four Hundred Souls: A Community History of African America, 1619–2019 (nonfiction), Penguin Random House, 2019.
“‘Called Back to the World’: An Interview with Alice Walker” (nonfiction), The New York Review of Books, 2018.
“Solange Knowles Is the Superstar We Need Now” (nonfiction), ELLE, 2017.
“The Thrill of the Black Marching Band” (nonfiction), The New York Review of Books, 2017.
“‘I Got No Comfort In This Life’: The Increasing Importance of Patsey in 12 Years a Slave” (nonfiction), American Literary History Vol. 26 Issue 2, 2014.
“Strange Sampling: Nina Simone and Her Hip-Hop Children” (nonfiction), American Quarterly Vol. 66 No. No. 1, 2014.
Contributing Writer (nonfiction), The Nation, 2011–2014.
Scholar-in-Residence, Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture, 2013.
Sites of Slavery: Citizenship and Racial Democracy in the Post-Civil Rights Imagination (nonfiction), Duke University Press, 2012.
Center of African American Studies Fellow, Princeton University, 2010.
“The Romance of Ethiopia: A Critical Introduction” (nonfiction), Callaloo Vol. 33 No. 1, 2010.
Jillian Lauren ’91
Exit Sandman: The True Story of America’s Most Prolific Serial Killer (nonfiction), Dutton, forthcoming.
“The Serial Killer and the ‘Less Dead’” (nonfiction), New York Magazine, 2018.
Everything You Ever Wanted (memoir), Plume, 2015.
“What Kind of Monster Hits Her Kid?” (nonfiction), Salon, 2013.
“No One Told Me How Hard Adoption Would Be” (nonfiction), Harper’s Bazaar, 2015.
“How Do You Know When It’s Time To Stop Trying?” (nonfiction), Elle, 2015.
“Transcending Trauma” (nonfiction), Los Angeles Times, 2015.
“How the Sultan of Brunei Violated His Sharia Law With Me” (nonfiction), The Daily Beast, 2014.
“Face the Music” (nonfiction), Los Angeles Magazine, 2013.
“My Inappropriate Relationship” (nonfiction), Salon, 2013
“Visiting Auschwitz” (nonfiction), The Rumpus, 2012.
Pretty (fiction), Plume, 2011.
“Finding Marriage Without Losing a Self” (nonfiction), New York Times, 2010.
Some Girls: My Life in a Harem (memoir), Plume, 2010.
“Tips for Sound-Check Shopping in Tokyo” (nonfiction), Vanity Fair, 2008.
“She’s with the Band” (nonfiction), Vanity Fair, 2008
Caren Simpson McVicker ’81
Henderson House (fiction), Inkshares, forthcoming.