Adrienne Raphel
Raphel at the 2021 National Book Festival
Raphel at the 2021 National Book Festival
Born1988 (age 35–36)
New Jersey, U.S.
Occupation
  • Poet
  • writer
Education
Website
www.adrienneraphel.com

Adrienne Raphel (born 1988) is an American poet and writer. She has published works of poetry as well as a book on the history of crossword puzzles.

Early life and education

Raphel was born in New Jersey but grew up in St. Johnsbury, Vermont, from age ten.[1] She attended the private school St. Johnsbury Academy, writing a puzzle pamphlet as a capstone project in her senior year in 2006.[1][2] She earned her Bachelor of Arts from Princeton University in 2010, Master of Fine Arts in poetry from the Iowa Writers' Workshop, and PhD in English from Harvard University.[1]

Career

Raphel has written for The New Yorker, The Atlantic, and The 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 collection Our Dark Academia (2022) contains poetry and prose about modern life, including a parody Wikipedia article on what she calls "dark academia".[5][6]

Raphel writes about the history of crossword puzzles in Thinking Inside the Box (2020), published by Penguin Group. The book grew out of her PhD dissertation on crosswords.[2][5] Besides conducting archival research and interviews, she competed in the American Crossword Puzzle Tournament and submitted her own puzzle to The New York Times.[7][8]

Bibliography

  • Raphel, Adrienne (2017). What Was It For. Rescue Press. ISBN 9780986086984.
  • 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. ISBN 9780525522102.
  • Raphel, Adrienne (September 27, 2022). Our Dark Academia. Rescue Press. ISBN 9781734831641.

References

  1. 1 2 3 "Adrienne Raphel '06". St. Johnsbury Academy. July 10, 2023. Retrieved November 17, 2023.
  2. 1 2 Burt, 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. Retrieved November 17, 2023.
  3. 1 2 Shipley, Julia (December 19, 2018). "Poets GennaRose Nethercott and Adrienne Raphel Keep Vermont on the Literary Map". Seven Days. Retrieved November 17, 2023.
  4. ↑ Rooney, Kathleen (August 4, 2017). "Five Poets Offer Eloquent Views of the American Experience". The New York Times. Retrieved November 17, 2023.
  5. 1 2 Wessels, Christian (February 3, 2023). "Poetry Thinking: On Adrienne Raphel's 'Our Dark Academia'". Cleveland Review of Books. Retrieved November 17, 2023.
  6. ↑ Koenig, Andrew (September 12, 2023). "Three New Collections by Three Harvard Poets". Harvard Review. Retrieved November 17, 2023.
  7. ↑ Mesure, Susie (March 18, 2020). "Thinking Inside the Box by Adrienne Raphel review – adventures with crosswords". The Guardian. Retrieved November 17, 2023.}
  8. ↑ Sagal, Peter (March 17, 2020). "Here's Looking at You, Grid: A History of Crosswords and Their Fans". The New York Times. Retrieved November 17, 2023.
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