Adrienne Raphel

Adrienne Raphel is the author of Thinking Inside the Box: Adventures with Crosswords and the Puzzling People Who Can't Live Without Them (Penguin Press, 2020), Our Dark Academia (Rescue Press, 2022), and What Was It For (rescue Press, 2017). She holds a PhD from Harvard and an MFA from the Iowa Writers' Workshop. She currently teaches at CUNY Baruch and St. Joseph's University. She is also on faculty with the Berlin Writers' Workshop and serves as a mentor with the Periplus Collective.