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Adrienne Raphel            

Writer, Poet, Professor & Crossword Expert

Adrienne Raphel is a poet and writer. She is the author of "Thinking Inside the Box: Adventures with Crosswords and the Puzzling People Who Can't Live Without Them," named an Editor's Choice by the New York Times Book Review; "What Was It For," winner of the Rescue Press Black Box Poetry Prize; and "Our Dark Academia." Her essays and poetry appear in the New York Times, the New Yorker, the Paris Review, Poetry, the Drift, the New Republic, and many other publications.

Raphel has been awarded fellowships at the American Library in Paris and the James Merrill House, and she has been a featured speaker at events such as the National Book Festival at the Library of Congress and the Edinburgh Book Festival.

Raphel holds a PhD in English from Harvard University, an MFA in poetry from the Iowa Writers' Workshop, and an AB from Princeton University. She is a Lecturer in the English faculty at CUNY Baruch, where she teaches First-Year Writing and Great Works; and a faculty member at the Writers Foundry MFA program at St. Joseph's University, where she teaches poetry. She is also on faculty with the Berlin Writers' Workshop and serves as a mentor with the Periplus Collective.

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