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