About me
Adrienne Raphel is the author of Thinking Inside the Box: Adventures with Crosswords and the Puzzling People Who Can't Live Without Them, Our Dark Academia, and What Was It For. Her essays, poetry, and crossword puzzles appear widely, including in The New Yorker, The New York Times, The Paris Review, The Atlantic, Poetry, and many other publications. Raphel is the recipient of the Visiting Fellowship at the American Library in Paris and a Writer-in-Residence Fellowship at the James Merrill House. She teaches at CUNY Baruch and serves on faculty at the Mountainview MFA and the Writer's Foundry; she also is a mentor with the Periplus Collective.
