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EJ Dickson, CRC 2013, is a senior culture writer at The Cut. She was formerly a senior writer for Rolling Stone covering internet culture.
Arielle Domb, CRC 2023, is a freelance writer with bylines in The New York Times, Vogue, Cosmopolitan, Dazed, and elsewhere.
Gray Harrison, CRC 2023, is a features writer at Collider.
Talia Barrington, CRC 2023, is a freelance writer with bylines in The Daily Beast, The Atlantic, New York Magazine, The Guardian, and elsewhere.
Dalya Benor, CRC 2023, is a freelance writer with bylines in The New York Times, Vogue, W Magazine, and elsewhere.
Julia Teti, CRC 2023, is a senior digital news writer for Women’s Wear Daily.
Alana Pockros, CRC 2021, is on the editorial staff at both The Nation and Cleveland Review of Books. She is a freelance writer with bylines in The Paris Review, The New York Times, The Baffler, and elsewhere.
Shaan Sachdev, CRC 2019, is a freelance writer with bylines in The New York Times, Literary Hub, The Point, The Drift, and elsewhere. He received a Pushcart Prize in 2024.
Geoff Mak, CRC 2022, is the author of Mean Boys: A Personal History (Bloomsbury, 2024). His writing has appeared in The New Yorker, The Paris Review, The Guardian, Artforum, and elsewhere.
Meera Subramanian, CRC 2005, has been awarded a 2024 Covering Climate Now Journalism Award. She is a freelance journalist with bylines in The New Yorker, The New York Times, Nature, and elsewhere.
Hillary Brenhouse, CRC 2006, is the founding editor-in-chief of Elastic, a new magazine launching in March 2025. She was formerly the editor-in-chief of Guernica and a senior editor at The Guardian US.
Rennie McDougall, CRC 2017, is a freelance writer with bylines in the The Brooklyn Rail, The Village Voice, and elsewhere. His first book will be published by Abrams Press in 2025.
Kate Bolick, CRC 2002, is a senior editor at The Yale Review. She is the author of Spinster: Making A Life of One’s Own (Crown, 2015) and the co-author of March Sisters: On Life, Death, and Little Women (Library of America, 2019). Her next book, Every Friend a Phantom, is forthcoming from Random House in 2025.
Jason Bailey, CRC 2011, is a regular contributor at the New York Times. His next book, Gandolfini: Jim, Tony, and the Life of a Legend, is forthcoming with Abrams Press in April 2025.
Margaret Eby, CRC 2010, is the deputy food editor for the Philadelphia Inquirer. She is the author of South Towards Home (W.W. Norton, 2015) and You Gotta Eat: Real-Life Strategies for Feeding Yourself When Cooking Sounds Impossible (Quirk Books), forthcoming in November 2024.
Jana Prykyl, CRC 2004, is the executive editor of The New York Review of Books. Her latest book of poems, Midwood (W.W. Norton), was published in paperback in 2024.
Enzo Escober, CRC 2022, is a freelance writer with bylines in Slate, LARB, Guernica, and elsewhere.
Melissa Rodman, CRC 2022, is a freelance writer with bylines in Hazlitt, The Arts Fuse, The New Republic, and elsewhere.
Emma Keates, CRC 2022, is a staff writer at The A.V. Club.
Claiborne Smith, CRC 2002, is the literary director at the Library of Congress. He was formerly the former editor-in-chief of Kirkus Reviews and the literary director of the San Antonio Book Festival.
Jillian Steinhauer, CRC 2011, is a freelance journalist with bylines in New York Times, New York Magazine, The New Republic, and The Nation. She is a former editor at Hyperallergic, and a recipient of a 2023 Rabkin Prize for visual arts journalism.
Jessica Gross, CRC 2011, is the author of Hysteria (The Unnamed Press, 2020) and the forthcoming novel Open Up (Abrams Books, 2025). Her writing has appeared in The New York Times Magazine, The Paris Review, LARB, and elsewhere.
Elisa Wouk Almino, CRC 2014, is the deputy editor of L.A. Times Image. She was formerly a senior editor at Hyperallergic.
Thomas Chatterton Williams, CRC 2008, is a staff writer at The Atlantic, a 2022 Guggenheim fellow, and was also appointed Senior Fellow and Visiting Professor of Humanities at the Hannah Arendt Center at Bard College.
Kent Russell, CRC 2009, is the author of I Am Sorry to Think I Have Raised a Timid Son (Knopf Doubleday, 2015) and In the Land of Good Living: A Journey to the Heart of Florida (Knopf Doubleday, 2020). His writing has appeared in Harper’s Magazine, The New Republic, The Believer, and elsewhere.
Chelsea Leu, CRC 2020, is a freelance writer with bylines in The New Yorker, The New York Times, the Atlantic, and elsewhere. She is the former book reviews editor at The Rumpus.
Apoorva Tadepalli, CRC 2017, is a freelance writer with bylines in The Atlantic, LARB, The Point, The Yale Review, The Washington Post, and elsewhere.
Daniel Girma, CRC 2020, is a producer at NPR’s Embedded and the politics and film/tv editor at Laid Off NYC.
David Marchese, CRC 2005, is a journalist for The New York Times and a co-host of The Interview.
Amanda Feinman, CRC 2018, is an Agent Associate at Writers House.
Maria Prudente, CRC 2022, is a freelance writer with bylines in The L.A. Times, The Daily Beast, The Chicago Tribune, and elsewhere.
Lily Houston Smith, CRC 2021, is a podcast producer at Campside Media, and a freelance journalist with bylines in The Atlantic, The Nation, LARB, and elsewhere.
Sara Krolewski, CRC 2021, is an associate editor at The Atlantic.
Michelle Navarro, CRC 2021, is a producer at City Cast and a former This American Life fellow.
Crispin Long, CRC 2016, is a copy editor and web producer at The New Yorker.
Natasha Lewis, CRC 2012, is the co-editor of Dissent.
Fran Bigman, CRC 2018, is a freelance critic with bylines in Bookforum, The Washington Post, LitHub, LARB, and elsewhere.
Leigh Kamping-Carder, CRC 2009, is the Head of Newsletters at The Wall Street Journal.
Zack Hatfield, CRC 2017, is the managing editor of Aperture magazine, and a former associate editor at Artforum.
Rachel Kraus, CRC 2017, is a senior health and fitness writer at Well+Good.
Joshua Alvarez, CRC 2016, is a senior editor at Texas Monthly and a former assistant opinions editor at The Washington Post.
Alex Robert Ross, CRC 2016, is a freelance journalist and the former editorial director of The FADER.
Ian Crouch, CRC 2009, is a web producer at The New Yorker.
Natalia Winkelman, CRC 2018, is a regular contributor at The New York Times and a podcast producer at Campside Media.
Callie Hitchcock, CRC 2018, is a freelance writer with bylines in The Believer, LARB, The Nation, Slate, and elsewhere.
Raphael Helfand, CRC 2020, is an editor at The FADER and the editor-in-chief of Laid Off NYC.
Charly Wilder, CRC 2009, is a senior editor at Roads and Kingdoms and a freelance writer with bylines in The New York Times, New York Magazine, and elsewhere.
Megan Labrise, CRC 2013, is the editor-at-large for Kirkus Reviews. She hosts the weekly podcast Fully Booked.
Bryan Lowder, CRC 2011, is an associate editor at Slate and the co-founder of Outward, Slate’s section on life, culture, and LGBTQ issues.
Meredith Blake, CRC 2009, is a staff writer at the Los Angeles Times.
Willa Paskin, CRC 2005, is the host of Slate’s Decoder Ring podcast.
Katie Ryder, CRC 2012, is a senior editor at Harper’s Magazine.
Books
J. Bryan Lowder, CRC 2011, is working on a forthcoming book with Farrar, Straus and Giroux.
Rennie McDougall, CRC 2017, is working on a forthcoming book with Abrams Press.
Geoff Mak, CRC 2022, is the author of Mean Boys: A Personal History (Bloomsbury, 2024).
Jessica Gross, CRC 2011, is the author of HYSTERIA (The Unnamed Press, 2020) and the forthcoming novel Open Up (Abrams Books, 2025).
Kate Bolick, CRC 2002, is the author of Spinster: Making A Life of One’s Own (Crown, 2015) and the co-author of March Sisters: On Life, Death, and Little Women (Library of America, 2019). Her next book, Every Friend a Phantom, is forthcoming from Random House in 2025.
Thomas Chatterton Williams, CRC 2008, is the author of Losing My Cool (Penguin Books, 2011), Self-Portrait in Black and White (W. W. Norton, 2019) and the forthcoming book Summer Of Our Discontent (Pan Macmillan, 2025).
Jason Bailey, CRC 2011, is the author of several books, including Gandolfini: Jim, Tony, and the Life of a Legend, forthcoming with Abrams Press in April 2025.
Margaret Eby, CRC 2011, is the author of South Towards Home (W.W. Norton, 2015) and the forthcoming You Gotta Eat: Real-Life Strategies for Feeding Yourself When Cooking Sounds Impossible (Quirk Books, 2024).
Lauren Sandler, CRC 1999, is the author of This Is All I Got: A New Mother’s Search for Home (Random House Publishing Group, 2020).
Kent Russell, CRC 2009, is the author of I Am Sorry to Think I Have Raised a Timid Son (Knopf Doubleday, 2015) and In the Land of Good Living: A Journey to the Heart of Florida (Knopf Doubleday, 2020).