Kristen
Kristen lives in Cambridge and teaches writing at Harvard. She earned her PhD in English in 2021 from Princeton University.
Lauren
Lauren is a published poet and English tutor. She earned her Master's in Creative Writing at Oxford and her BA in English at Amherst, where she was a Davis Scholar.
Mariam
Mariam Rahmani is a writer and translator. Rahmani holds a PhD in Comparative Literature from UCLA and an MFA in Fiction from Columbia University, as well as degrees from Princeton and Oxford. She currently serves on the faculty of Bennington College and is a postdoctoral Fellow with the American Council for Learned Societies in 2023-24.
Daniel
Daniel is a contributing writer for the New York Times Magazine and author of 5 books of literary nonfiction. He holds an MFA in Fiction (Columbia University), and has taught at Saint Ann's School, Columbia University, and elsewhere.
David
David holds a BA in English (Bates College) and MA in Teaching (Simmons College). He has been a freelance writer for 15 years and an English teacher for nearly 5 years.
Elizabeth
Elizabeth graduated magna cum laude from Washington University in St. Louis with a BA in Psychological and Brain Sciences and Women, Gender & Sexuality Studies. She is an MSW Candidate in Clinical, Mental Health at Boston College.
Alice
Alice is a medical student in the Health Sciences and Technology program at Harvard Medical School. She earned her BS in Materials Science and Engineering at Stanford.
Chang
Chang is an MD/PhD student at Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai. He earned his BA in English Literature and Biochemistry at Columbia University, where he was a John Jay Scholar and graduated Phi Beta Kappa.
Janet
Janet holds a BA in Art History and English (Wellesley), an MA in Art History (Glasgow) and an MA in Management (Harvard). She is now the Senior Assistant Registrar at the Harvard Art Museums within Collections Management.
Samuel
Samuel earned his BA with honors in English at UC Berkeley. Now, he is a PhD candidate in English at Harvard University, writing about nationalism, cultural history, and literature.
Madeleine
Madeleine holds a BA in Social Studies (Harvard) and a PhD in Near Eastern Languages and Civilizations (U Chicago). She is currently writing a book about Ottomanism in nineteenth-century political thought.
Becca
Becca holds a BA in Philosophy from Dartmouth (summa cum laude) and an MPhil in the History and Philosophy of Science from the University of Cambridge. She is currently finishing her PhD in Philosophy at Harvard.
Sara Deniz
Sara is a poet, educator, and scholar. She holds a BA in English (Wesleyan) and an MFA in Poetry (Iowa Writers' Workshop). She is currently working on her PhD in English at the CUNY Graduate Center.
Kannan
Kannan holds a BA in the History of Science (University of Chicago, Phi Beta Kappa) and an MFA in Fiction (Iowa Writers' Workshop). His stories have been published in the LA Times, the LA Review of Books, and Racquet.
Kristen
Kristen earned her PhD in Epidemiology at Harvard, where she is currently a postdoc research associate. She holds an MPH in Epidemiology (Emory) and a BS in Chemistry with focus in Biochemistry (UNC Chapel Hill).
Emma
Emma earned her BA in English from Sarah Lawrence and her MFA in Fiction from the Iowa Writers' Workshop. She has worked as a writing teacher, editor, and agent, and is now a freelance editor based in California.
Ash
Ash earned a BA in Social Studies (Harvard), an MPhil in Intellectual History and Political Thought (University of Cambridge), and a JD (Yale). He is currently a PhD candidate in Political Science at Columbia University.
Erin
After Erin graduated with a BA in Environmental Studies (University of Michigan), she received a Fulbright to teach English in Rwanda. She went on to earn an MA in Teaching (Mt. Holyoke), and currently teaches 3rd grade.
Evander
Evander is a Residential Tutor at Harvard. He holds a PhD in American Studies (Harvard) and a BA in Art History and English (Vassar). Previously, he worked at the New Bedford Whaling Museum and the Metropolitan Museum of Art.
Tony
Tony holds a BA in Literature (Harvard) and a JD/PhD in Comparative Literature (Harvard). He has been a lecturer at Tufts, taught courses at Harvard, and served as a tutor on Harvard's Comparative Literature Tutorial Board.
Ellen
Ellen is an MD-PhD student in the Health Sciences and Technology Program at Harvard Medical School. Previously, she earned her degree in Chemistry at Caltech.
Anne
Anne was a double major in Linguistics and French at Wellesley, and earned an MA from Middlebury School in France. She is now a PhD student in French at Harvard, and specializes in 20th and 21st century French and Francophone Lit.
John
John earned his BA in Literature from Harvard (magna cum laude), and his PhD in Philosophy from Princeton. After teaching at several major universities in the US and abroad, John is now pursuing his MSW at Simmons University.
Jon Kenneth
Jon earned a BA in English at George Washington and a PhD in English and Comparative Literature at Columbia University. Since 2009, he has taught literature, history, and writing at Pierrepont School in Westport, Connecticut.
Aubrey
Aubrey holds a BA in French & International Studies (University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign), an MS in TESOL (Fordham), and an MA, MPhil, and PhD in French Literature with a Certificate of Achievement in French Studies (NYU) .
Shelby
Shelby holds a Master's in American Studies (Oxford) and an MFA in Fiction (UC Irvine). His stories have been published in places such as Vice News and GOOD Magazine, primarily about climate change and the environment.
Dilyn
Dilyn earned a BA in English with a minor in Spanish and Studio Art from NYU. After teaching in Mexico City as a Fulbright Scholar, she earned her JD at Harvard Law. She is currently clerking for the Colorado Supreme Court.
Logan
Logan is an MD/PhD at Harvard. Prior to med school, she spent two years in affordable construction through AmeriCorps, and earned her BA in Child Development at Duke (Truman Scholar, Phi Beta Kappa).
Amelia
Amelia is an Italian Studies PhD at Harvard. Her dissertation focuses on the philosophy of the singing voice in the Italian Renaissance. She holds a BA in Italian and History from Middlebury College (summa cum laude).
Emma
Emma majored in Religious Studies at Yale. She is currently a PhD candidate in English and Comparative Lit at Columbia University, where she studies poetry and the history of the English literary tradition back to the Middle Ages.
Evan
Evan is a novelist, essayist, and educator. He holds an MFA in Fiction (Iowa Writers' Workshop) and BA in Interdisciplinary Studies (Evergreen State College). Currently, he teaches at Pierrepont School in Westport, Connecticut.
Benjamin
Benjamin graduated summa cum laude from the NYU Gallatin School. He taught English at his alma mater, Phillips Academy Andover where he coached cross country and served on the advisory board for the Brace Center for Gender Studies.
Andrew
Andrew is earning his MA in Middle Eastern Studies at Tel Aviv University on a Fulbright Scholarship. He earned his BA in History from Columbia University (cum laude), where he received the Natalie Shawn Fellowship.
Parker
Parker is a PhD student in Anthropology at Harvard. Prior to graduate school, he attended Bard College for Anthropology and Literature, and was then a Fulbright-Garca Robles Scholar in Mexico.
Molly
Molly is a JD student at Harvard Law. Previously, she studied History, Literature, and Social Anthropology as an undergrad at Harvard and helped develop educational materials for teaching negotiation and conflict resolution skills.
Anjali
Anjali holds a BA in Classical Languages and Literatures from Harvard College and an MBA from Harvard Business School. She currently works in Private Equity in London.
Mallory
Mallory earned her BA in English from Harvard University, where she was awarded a creative thesis in Playwriting. She went on to earn her MFA in Playwriting from the New School. She is a teacher in Salisbury School's summer program.
Claire
Claire holds a BA in English Literature (Brown) and an MFA in Painting (New York Academy of Art). Since 2016, she has been teaching high school English Literature at BASIS Independent in Brooklyn.
Eliza
Eliza majored in English and won several awards for her academic work at Bard College. She is now a PhD candidate in English at Harvard, where she studies nineteenth-century literature and the history of the novel.
Erica
Erica graduated from Smith College with a BA in French (high honors, Phi Beta Kappa). She has worked at the American Embassy in Paris and the French consulate in New York. Currently, she is a PhD student in French at NYU.
Claire
Claire graduated with a BA in History and minor in Mathematics from Barnard College, where she won the the Ellen Davis Goldwater prize for excellence in History. Currently, she is a Graduate Writing Fellow at Barnard.
Troy
Troy graduated from Yale with a BA in Ethics, Politics, and Economics. After serving in Teach for America, he attended Harvard Law. Currently, Troy works for an education technology startup focused on preparing students for college.
Brent
Brent graduated from NYU with a BA in Literature and Music, and was awarded the Dean's Grant for Creative Writing. His music has appeared in shows such as Gossip Girl and Skins, and he is currently at work on his first novel.
Helena
Helena studied at Columbia and NYU. She has served as a Contributing Editor and Senior Contributor at The New Inquiry, and her work has been excerpted or cited in The Atlantic, Harper's, and The New York Times, among others.
Charlotte
Charlotte holds an MA in Hispanic Studies from Brown University and a BA in English and Spanish from Oxford University. She is a recipient of the Kossoff Prize for Leadership in Language Teaching.
Tarek
Tarek is pursuing his PhD in History and Middle Eastern Studies at Harvard, where he has received the Certificate of Distinction in Teaching from the Derek Bok Center for Teaching & Learning four times.
Chris
Chris received his PhD in English from Harvard. He holds an MFA from the Iowa Writers' Workshop and an AB from Princeton. He currently teaches at a K-12 school in Connecticut.
Emily Mc.
Emily holds a BA in Philosophy, Psychology, and Linguistics (Tulane), an MA in Philosophy (Brown) and a PhD in Philosophy (Harvard). She is currently the Nancy Schaenen Endowed Visiting Scholar of Ethics at DePauw University.
Manoah
Manoah holds BAs in English & French Language and Literature (UChicago, Phi Beta Kappa), and an MA, MPhil, and PhD in French Literature (NYU). He is a Student Affairs Officer at the Graduate School of Arts & Sciences at Columbia.
Brian
Brian holds a PhD in Italian from New York University. Previously, he earned his MA from NYU in Italian, and a BA from Dartmouth in Comparative Literature.
Meg
Megan is a PhD candidate in the History of Science at Harvard, where she has worked with more than 200 students. Before graduate school, Megan received her BA in English from Amherst College.
Hana
Hana double-majored in Sociology and Dance at Columbia University, where she graduated with departmental honors and Phi Beta Kappa. She also holds a Doctor of Physical Therapy degree from Hunter College, and she practices as a physical therapist.
Katherine
Katherine holds a BA in Classics (Harvard), an MA in Classical Art & Archaeology (University of London), and an MD/PhD in Ancienty History (Harvard). She is a diagnostic radiology resident and postdoc fellow at Harvard.
Adair
Adair is a law student at Yale Law School. Prior to that, she was an IBM Senior Management Consultant. She graduated summa cum laude and Phi Beta Kappa with a Bachelor's in Human Rights and Africana Studies from Barnard College.
Jackie
Jackie is an MD student at NYU School of Medicine. She earned her BA in Neuroscience and English and was the managing editor of her college newspaper at the University of Miami (magna cum laude, Phi Beta Kappa).
Tova
Tova attended the University of Chicago and graduated Phi Beta Kappa with a BA in Anthropology. She recently completed her MPhil in Archaeology (with Merit) at the University of Cambridge.
Richard
Richard graduated from Princeton with a BA in Chemistry, and then spent two years at Oxford, where he earned an MBA and an MS in Global Health as a Rhodes Scholar. He is currently pursuing his MD at Harvard Medical School.
Alyssa
Alyssa holds a BA in English from Williams College. She completed her MFA in Fiction Writing at Brooklyn College, where she was the recipient of a Truman Capote Scholarship. She is currently at work on a collection of short stories.
Erin
Erin holds an MFA from the Iowa Writers' Workshop. She also holds an MA in Modern & Contemporary Literature (University of Virginia) and BA in English (Rutgers University, summa cum laude with high honors).
Alexander
Alex received his undergraduate degree in Classical Civilizations from Harvard. He taught Latin, History, and Ancient Greek at the high school level, and then earned his Master's degree in Classics from Columbia.
Emily E.
Emily is a PhD candidate in French Literature at Harvard. Before grad school, she spent a year teaching English in France, and earned her BA in French & Francophone Studies at Carleton College (summa cum laude, Phi Beta Kappa).
Sofia
Sofia majored in Studies of Women, Gender, and Sexuality at Harvard. After graduation, she was awarded the Harvard Traveling Fellowship to conduct research in Amsterdam. She holds a Master's in Social Work from Smith College.
Radhe
Radhe earned her JD from Harvard Law and currently works in litigation. She holds a BS in Chemical Engineering with a concentration in Political Science from Columbia, and was an NYC Urban Fellow in the Department of Education.
Amulya
Amulya is an Anthropology PhD candidate at Harvard University. She earned her Bachelor's in Anthropology from University of Chicago, where she graduated Phi Beta Kappa.
Emmy
Emmy studied Literature and Visual Arts at Yale and graduated summa cum laude, Phi Beta Kappa. She is now a PhD Candidate in English at Harvard, working on her dissertation about the American graphic novel.
Chelsea
Chelsea graduated from UCLA summa cum laude with a BA in English and Political Science and a minor in French. She then earned her JD at NYU, where she was a Root-Tilden-Kern public interest scholar and a Florence Allen Scholar.
Aaron
Aaron earned his PhD in Political Science at Yale, and his BA (Philosophy) and MA (Social Sciences) at the University of Chicago. Currently, he teaches Social Sciences at Deep Springs College.
Anna
Anna holds a PhD in Slavic Languages and Literature (Harvard), an MA in Slavic Languages and Literature (MA), a BA in History and Philology (Russian State University) and a BA in Fine Arts (Pushkin State Museum Art College).
Nicole
Nicole studied History at Boston College. After graduation, she worked in Fidelity's Legal Department as a business anaylyst, and is now pursuing her JD at Harvard Law School.
Julia
Julia holds a BA from Princeton University in English Literature, with certificates in Theater and Music Theater. Her thesis won the Alan Downer prize for research in English and drama. Currently, she works in theatrical costuming.
Michael
Mike graduated from the University of Oxford with an MSc in Musculoskeletal Sciences. He earned his BA in History & Science from Harvard, where he wrote a thesis on the discovery of dyslexia and graduated summa cum laude.
Jonathan
Jonathan is an MPA student at Columbia University School of International and Public Affairs. He earned his Bachelor's from Tufts University, where he double-majored in Politcal Science and Economics.
Paul
Paul is a PhD candidate in African and African American Studies at Harvard, where he has received multiple awards for his teaching, as well as several research fellowships, including a Fulbright-Hays fellowship.
Courtney
Courtney holds a BHA in Art and Anthropology from Carnegie Mellon and an MPhil in Social & Cultural Anthropology from Oxford, where she was a Rhodes Scholar. She is now a PhD student in Social Anthropology at Harvard.
Joani
Joani holds a a BA in English Literature with minors in Humanistic and European Cultural Studies from Princeton, and two Master's degrees from Oxford, where she was a Marshall Scholar. She is now an English PhD student at Harvard.
Susan
Susan studied English at Rice and graduated summa cum laude. After serving in Teach for America, she earned her PhD in English at Harvard. She has held faculty positions at Wake Forest and Yale and currently lives in London.
Joyce
Joyce is currently an MD candidate at Harvard Medical School. She also graduated summa cum laude and Phi Beta Kappa with a BA in Anthropology from Harvard, where her thesis won the Thomas T. Hoopes Prize.
Ezra
After Ezra graduated from Harvard with a BA in Social Studies, he received the Trustman Traveling Fellowship and went to Peru to study the Chinese diaspora. He is now the Artist-in-Residence at the Signet Society at Harvard.
Ava
Ava is a PhD candidate in Organismic Evolutionary Biology at Harvard University. She graduated magna cum laude from Cornell with a BA in Biological Science with a Neurobiology Concentration.
Katherine
Katherine earned a BA in Psychology with a concentration in Liguistics from Columbia. Currently, she is completing an MA in Lingusitics at the Graduate Center at CUNY.
Sonya
Sonya is an MD candidate at Columbia. She graduated from the University of Pittsburgh with a BS in Neuroscience and a BA in History and Philosophy of Science, with minors in Spanish and Chemistry (summa cum laude, Phi Beta Kappa).
Rachel
Rachel graduated from UVA with a double major in Art History and French, and then spent two years in Europe teaching in Lyons, France and working at art galleries in Berlin, Germany. She is now a PhD candidate in Art History at NYU.
Jimmy
Jimmy is a PhD candidate in Sociology & Social Policy at Harvard. He holds a JD (Harvard) and BA in English and Social Studies (Harvard). Currently, he is a Lecturer on Law at UCLA Law and a pro bono attorney.
Ian
Ian graduated with High Honors from Dartmouth with a BA in Government, and earned an MA and PhD in Political Science from the University of Chicago. He has taught at University of Chicago, Northwestern, Bard, and Harvard.
Claire
Claire earned her BS in Molecular, Cellular, and Development Biology from Yale University. After earning her MD at Columbia University College of Physicians and Surgeons, she is now a Resident in Orthopaedic Surgery at Yale.
Shyam
Shyam is currently a student in the Harvard-MIT MD/PhD program, with an MD from Harvard in the Pathways Program. He completed his BA in Neurobiology at Washington University in St. Louis (magna cum laude).
Elizabeth
Elizabeth holds a BS in Chemistry with a specialization in Biochemistry (UVA) and a PhD in Chemistry (Emory University). Currently, she is a postdoc research fellow at Dana Farber Cancer Institute.
Connor
Connor graduated with a BA in English from Duke, where he was as an Angier B. Duke Memorial Scholar. He earned his MPhil in Modern & Contemporary English Lit from Trinity College, Cambridge, and was a Fulbright researcher in Tanzania.
Emma
Emma holds a PhD in French Literature from Harvard University. Previously, she earned her BA and BM, summa cum laude, from the University of Minnesota-Twin Cities. Her doctoral dissertation examined the representation of music as a tool of social critique in the modern French novel.
Jay Ben
Jay Ben holds a BA in Theater and Creative Writing from Dartmouth and an MFA in Acting from Case Western Reserve. He then helped build and served as Associate Artist Director for a summer camp program at MaineStage Shakespeare.
Mac
Mac holds an MD from Boston University School of Medicine. He earned a BA in Political Science and Biochemistry at Middlebury and an MA in Political Science at Boston College. Currently, he is an anesthesiology resident at UPenn.
Peter
Peter is a PhD student in German at Columbia University. Prior to grad school, he earned a BMus in Musical Arts with distinction from Eastman, and, simultaneously, a BA in German Studies from University of Rochester.
Hanul
Hanul recently graduated from the Harvard Graduate School of Design as a Wyss Fellow. She holds a BA in Environmental Science from Dartmouth, where she was an Endowed Scholar, Presidential Scholar, and Stefansson Fellow.
Andrew
Andrew holds a BA in American History and English Literature from the College of William and Mary, and an MA in Ecclesiastical Studies from Oxford. He holds a PhD in Religious Studies at Columbia, and is a visiting professor there..
Julia
Julia graduated from Princeton University with a BA in Spanish & Portuguese (summa cum laude, Phi Beta Kappa), and earned her MD at Harvard Medical School. Subsequently, she completed an Internal Medicine Residency at NYU and a Hospice & Palliative Medicine Fellowship at the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai.
Nadia
Nadia earned a BA in English and Psychology (Cornell, magna cum laude), and a PhD in Developmental Pyshology (Cornell). Her work has received several departmental and national honors.
Patricia
Pat earned her BA in English and Biology at UPenn and her MA and PhD in English Literature at U Chicago. She has taught at Brandeis University, and the University at Albany, State University of New York.
Jenna
Jenna is a PhD student of Medieval English Literature at Columbia. She holds a BA in English from Tufts, where she received the English Department Award and highest honors for her senior thesis, and graduated summa cum laude.
MG
MG is a PhD candidate at Harvard University, where she studies the relationship between literature, psychology, and ethical development. Previously, she earned her EdM in Language & Literacy (Harvard Graduate School of Education).