Monica Potts
{{Short description|American journalist and non-fiction writer}}
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Monica Potts is an American journalist and non-fiction writer. She wrote for The American Prospect{{Cite web |title=Monica Potts |url=https://prospect.org/topics/monica-potts/ |access-date=2023-08-15 |website=The American Prospect |language=en-us}} and FiveThirtyEight.{{Cite web |title=Monica Potts |url=https://fivethirtyeight.com/contributors/monica-potts/ |access-date=2023-08-15 |website=FiveThirtyEight |language=en-US}} She is currently a staff writer covering class politics for [https://newrepublic.com/authors/monica-potts The New Republic].{{Cite web |last=Rashid |first=Hafiz |date=2025-05-20 |title=Monica Potts |url=https://newrepublic.com/authors/monica-potts |access-date=2025-05-20 |website=The New Republic |language=en-us}} In 2012 she won The Sidney Award.
Life
Potts grew up in Clinton, Arkansas.{{cite news | last = Merritt | first = Stephanie | date = April 10, 2023 | title = The Forgotten Girls by Monica Potts review – addiction and escape in the Ozarks | url = https://www.theguardian.com/books/2023/apr/10/the-forgotten-girls-by-monica-potts-review-a-quietly-raging-lament-for-wasted-lives-in-21st-century-america | work = The Guardian}} She graduated from Bryn Mawr College and Columbia University. In 2016, she was a New America fellow.{{Cite web |title=Monica Potts |url=http://newamerica.org/our-people/monica-potts/ |access-date=2023-08-15 |website=New America |language=en}}
Her work has appeared in New York,{{Cite web |last=Potts |first=Monica |title=Monica Potts Author Archive |url=https://nymag.com/author/monica-potts/ |access-date=2023-08-15 |website=NYMag |language=en-us}} The New York Times,{{Cite news |last=Potts |first=Monica |date=2019-10-04 |title=Opinion {{!}} In the Land of Self-Defeat |language=en-US |work=The New York Times |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2019/10/04/opinion/sunday/trump-arkansas.html |access-date=2023-08-15 |issn=0362-4331}} The Nation,{{Cite web |last= |date=2016-10-12 |title=Monica Potts |url=https://www.thenation.com/authors/monica-potts/ |access-date=2023-08-15 |website=The Nation |language=en-US}} The Atlantic,{{Cite web |last=Potts |first=Monica |title=Monica Potts |url=https://www.theatlantic.com/author/monica-potts-contributor/ |access-date=2023-08-15 |website=The Atlantic |language=en-US}} The New Republic,{{Cite web |title=Monica Potts |url=https://newrepublic.com/authors/monica-potts?page=1 |access-date=2023-08-15 |website=The New Republic |language=en-us}} The Texas Observer,{{Cite web |last=Potts |first=Monica |date=2023-08-08 |title=How Less-educated Whites Fell Behind and Blamed Race |url=https://www.texasobserver.org/white-people-rural-arkansas-recession-forgotten-girls/ |access-date=2023-08-15 |website=The Texas Observer |language=en-US}} Vice,{{Cite web |title=Monica Potts |url=https://www.vice.com/en/contributor/monica-potts/ |access-date=2023-08-15 |website=Vice.com |language=en}} Vogue,{{Cite web |title=Monica Potts |url=https://www.vogue.com/contributor/monica-potts |access-date=2023-08-15 |website=Vogue |language=en-US}} and NPR.
In 2023, Random House published Potts' first non-fiction book, "The Forgotten Girls: A Memoir of Friendship and Lost Promise in Rural America". The book explores the lives of rural American women in Clinton, Arkansas, Pott's hometown.{{Cite news |last=Snyder |first=Rachel Louise |date=2023-04-17 |title=Young, White, Female and Dying of Despair in Rural America |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2023/04/17/books/review/the-forgotten-girls-monica-potts.html |access-date=2024-10-27 |work=The New York Times}}
Works
- {{cite book |title=The Forgotten Girls |date=2023-05-30 |publisher=Random House |isbn=978-0-593-73089-8}} {{Cite news |last=Snyder |first=Rachel Louise |date=2023-04-17 |title=Young, White, Female and Dying of Despair in Rural America |language=en-US |work=The New York Times |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2023/04/17/books/review/the-forgotten-girls-monica-potts.html |access-date=2023-08-15 |issn=0362-4331}}
References
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External links
- {{official|https://www.monicapotts.com/}}
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Category:21st-century American journalists
Category:21st-century American women journalists
Category:Bryn Mawr College alumni
Category:Columbia University alumni