Alissa Quart

About Alissa Quart

Alissa Quart

Alissa Quart is the author of five books of nonfiction including Bootstrapped: Liberating Ourselves from the American Dream, Squeezed and Branded. She collaborated on creating EHRP with Barbara Ehrenreich and has run it for close to a decade. She is also the author of two books of poetry, Monetized and Thoughts and Prayers, and has written for many publications including The Washington Post, The New York Times, and TIME. Her awards include an Emmy, an SPJ award, and a National Press Club award. She lives with her family in Brooklyn.

Film as Long-form

By Niemans @ Work September 11, 2014

There should be a recovery group for what I am: an author of nonfiction books, born in the 1970s. Yet I received shared Emmy and National Magazine Award nominations in multimedia this year. How so? It started with a … Read more