Adrienne Raphel

Adrienne Raphel has written for The New Yorker, The Atlantic, The New Republic, Slate, and Poetry, among other publications. Her debut poetry collection, What Was It For, won the Rescue Press Black Box Poetry Prize. Born in southern New Jersey and raised in northern Vermont, she holds an MFA from the Iowa Writers’ Workshop and a PhD from Harvard. Her book Thinking Inside the Box is available now.

A Brief History of (My) Dark Academia

"Dark academia is academia’s black swan and shadow self."

September 28, 2022 By Adrienne Raphel

Talking to Poets About Their Love of Crossword Puzzles

Adrienne Raphel Talks to Alice Notely, Fatima Asghar, and More

March 17, 2020 By Adrienne Raphel

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