Alissa Quart is the author of five books of nonfiction includingBootstrapped: Liberating Ourselves from the American Dream,Squeezedand 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.
Alissa Quart, NF ’10, on the reporting behind her book “Bootstrapped” The dark inspiration for “Bootstrapped: Liberating Ourselves From the American Dream” came from the news but also from my lived experience. I direct the Economic Hardship Reporting Project, a … Read more
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
