Monica Potts is an American journalist and non-fiction writer. She wrote for The American Prospect [1] and FiveThirtyEight. [2] She is currently a staff writer covering class politics for The New Republic. [3] In 2012 she won The Sidney Award.
Monica Potts is an American journalist and non-fiction writer. She wrote for The American Prospect [1] and FiveThirtyEight. [2] She is currently a staff writer covering class politics for The New Republic. [3] In 2012 she won The Sidney Award.
Potts grew up in Clinton, Arkansas. [4] She graduated from Bryn Mawr College and Columbia University. In 2016, she was a New America fellow. [5]
Her work has appeared in New York, [6] The New York Times, [7] The Nation, [8] The Atlantic, [9] The New Republic, [10] The Texas Observer , [11] Vice , [12] Vogue , [13] and NPR.
In 2023, Random House published Potts's 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, Potts's hometown. [14]
