Alissa Quart
| Alissa Quart | |
|---|---|
| Born | 1972 (age 44–45) New York City |
| Occupation | Journalist, author, poet |
| Nationality | American |
| Education |
BA, Brown University, 1994 Master of Science, Columbia Graduate School of Journalism, 1997 |
| Period | 2002–present |
| Notable works |
Hothouse Kids Branded Republic of Outsiders |
| Notable awards |
Nieman Fellowship, 2010 Pulitzer Center on Crisis Reporting grant, 2013 |
| Spouse | Peter Maass |
| Children | 1 |
| Website | |
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Alissa Quart (born 1972) is an American nonfiction writer, critic, journalist, editor, and poet. Her nonfiction books are Republic of Outsiders: The Power of Amateurs, Dreamers and Rebels (2013), Hothouse Kids: The Dilemma of the Gifted Child (2007), and Branded: The Buying and Selling of Teenagers (2003), her poetry, Monetized (2015).
She was an editor at large for The Atavist, an award-winning nonfiction iPad and enhanced ebook publisher: Her multimedia story with Maisie Crow, "The Last Clinic" was nominated for a National Magazine Award and a Documentary Emmy in 2014. She is editor-in-chief of the Economic Hardship Reporting Project, founded by Barbara Ehrenreich. Her articles and reviews have appeared in The Atlantic, the New York Times Sunday Review, The Nation, Newsweek, Mother Jones, and Marie Claire, and she has appeared on Nightline, 20/20, the Today Show, CNN, CBC, and C-Span. She coined the term hyperlink cinema in 2005 and popularized the term hipster sexism.
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