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); WHAT WAS IT FOR (Rescue Press, 2017), selected by Cathy Park Hong as the winner of the Black Box Poetry Prize; and OUR DARK ACADEMIA (Rescue Press, 2022). Her essays, poetry, and criticism appear in The New York Times , The New Yorker , The Paris Review , Poetry , The New Republic , and The Atlantic , among other publications.

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); WHAT WAS IT FOR (Rescue Press, 2017), selected by Cathy Park Hong as the winner of the Black Box Poetry Prize; and OUR DARK ACADEMIA (Rescue Press, 2022). Her essays, poetry, and criticism appear in The New York Times , The New Yorker , The Paris Review , Poetry , The New Republic , and The Atlantic , among other publications. See less