Monica Potts

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Monica Potts speaking at an event on homelessness

Monica Potts is an American journalist and non-fiction writer. She wrote for The American Prospect[1] and is currently a reporter for FiveThirtyEight.[2] In 2012 she won The Sidney Award.

Life[edit]

Potts grew up in Clinton, Arkansas.[3] She graduated from Bryn Mawr College and Columbia University. In 2016, she was a New America fellow.[4]

Her work has appeared in New York,[5] The New York Times,[6] The Nation,[7] The Atlantic,[8] The New Republic,[9] The Texas Observer,[10] Vice,[11] Vogue,[12] and NPR.

Works[edit]

  • The Forgotten Girls. Random House. 2023-05-30. ISBN 978-0-593-73089-8. [13]

References[edit]

  1. ^ "Monica Potts". The American Prospect. Retrieved 2023-08-15.
  2. ^ "Monica Potts". FiveThirtyEight. Retrieved 2023-08-15.
  3. ^ Merritt, Stephanie (April 10, 2023). "The Forgotten Girls by Monica Potts review – addiction and escape in the Ozarks". The Guardian.
  4. ^ "Monica Potts". New America. Retrieved 2023-08-15.
  5. ^ Potts, Monica. "Monica Potts Author Archive". NYMag. Retrieved 2023-08-15.
  6. ^ Potts, Monica (2019-10-04). "Opinion | In the Land of Self-Defeat". The New York Times. ISSN 0362-4331. Retrieved 2023-08-15.
  7. ^ "Monica Potts". The Nation. 2016-10-12. Retrieved 2023-08-15.
  8. ^ Potts, Monica. "Monica Potts". The Atlantic. Retrieved 2023-08-15.
  9. ^ "Monica Potts". The New Republic. Retrieved 2023-08-15.
  10. ^ Potts, Monica (2023-08-08). "How Less-educated Whites Fell Behind and Blamed Race". The Texas Observer. Retrieved 2023-08-15.
  11. ^ "Monica Potts". www.vice.com. Retrieved 2023-08-15.
  12. ^ "Monica Potts". Vogue. Retrieved 2023-08-15.
  13. ^ Snyder, Rachel Louise (2023-04-17). "Young, White, Female and Dying of Despair in Rural America". The New York Times. ISSN 0362-4331. Retrieved 2023-08-15.

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