Adrienne Raphel
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Adrienne Raphel(born 1988) is an American poet and writer. She has published works of poetry as well as a book on the history ofcrossword puzzles.
Early life and education
[edit]Raphel was born in New Jersey but grew up inSt. Johnsbury, Vermont,from age ten.[1]She attended the private schoolSt. Johnsbury Academy,writing a puzzle pamphlet as a capstone project in her senior year in 2006.[1][2]She earned herBachelor of ArtsfromPrinceton Universityin 2010,Master of Fine Artsin poetry from theIowa Writers' Workshop,andPhDin English fromHarvard University.[1]
Career
[edit]Raphel has written forThe New Yorker,The Atlantic,andThe Paris Review.[3]Her first poetry collection,What Was It For,was published by Rescue Press in 2017; two years before, the manuscript won the publisher's Black Box Poetry Prize contest.[3][4]Her collectionOur Dark Academia(2022) contains poetry and prose about modern life, including a parodyWikipediaarticle on what she calls "dark academia".[5][6]
Raphel writes about the history ofcrossword puzzlesinThinking Inside the Box(2020), published byPenguin Group.The book grew out of her PhD dissertation on crosswords.[2][5]Besides conducting archival research and interviews, she competed in theAmerican Crossword Puzzle Tournamentand submitted her own puzzle toThe New York Times.[7][8]
Bibliography
[edit]- Raphel, Adrienne (2017).What Was It For.Rescue Press.ISBN9780986086984.
- Raphel, Adrienne (May 16, 2021).Thinking Inside the Box: Adventures with Crosswords and the Puzzling People Who Can't Live Without Them.Penguin Publishing Group.ISBN9780525522102.
- Raphel, Adrienne (September 27, 2022).Our Dark Academia.Rescue Press.ISBN9781734831641.
References
[edit]- ^abc"Adrienne Raphel '06".St. Johnsbury Academy.July 10, 2023.RetrievedNovember 17,2023.
- ^abBurt, Stephanie (May 27, 2020)."'All It Takes Is Inexhaustible Patience, Limitless Time, and a Warped Mind': A Conversation with Adrienne Raphel ".Los Angeles Review of Books.RetrievedNovember 17,2023.
- ^abShipley, Julia (December 19, 2018)."Poets GennaRose Nethercott and Adrienne Raphel Keep Vermont on the Literary Map".Seven Days.RetrievedNovember 17,2023.
- ^Rooney, Kathleen(August 4, 2017)."Five Poets Offer Eloquent Views of the American Experience".The New York Times.RetrievedNovember 17,2023.
- ^abWessels, Christian (February 3, 2023)."Poetry Thinking: On Adrienne Raphel's 'Our Dark Academia'".Cleveland Review of Books.RetrievedNovember 17,2023.
- ^Koenig, Andrew (September 12, 2023)."Three New Collections by Three Harvard Poets".Harvard Review.RetrievedNovember 17,2023.
- ^Mesure, Susie (March 18, 2020)."Thinking Inside the Box by Adrienne Raphel review – adventures with crosswords".The Guardian.RetrievedNovember 17,2023.
- ^Sagal, Peter(March 17, 2020)."Here's Looking at You, Grid: A History of Crosswords and Their Fans".The New York Times.RetrievedNovember 17,2023.
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- 1988 births
- Living people
- 21st-century American women writers
- 21st-century American writers
- 21st-century American poets
- American women poets
- Writers from New Jersey
- Poets from New Jersey
- Writers from Vermont
- Poets from Vermont
- People from St. Johnsbury, Vermont
- Princeton University alumni
- Iowa Writers' Workshop alumni
- Harvard Graduate School of Arts and Sciences alumni
- Crossword creators