Monica Potts

Monica Potts speaking at an event on homelessness

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.

Life

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]

Works

  • The Forgotten Girls. Random House. 2023-05-30. ISBN 978-0-593-73089-8. [15]

References

  1. ↑ "Monica Potts". The American Prospect. Retrieved 2023-08-15.
  2. ↑ "Monica Potts". FiveThirtyEight. Archived from the original on February 2, 2022. Retrieved 2023-08-15.
  3. ↑ Rashid, Hafiz (2025-05-20). "Monica Potts". The New Republic. Retrieved 2025-05-20.
  4. ↑ Merritt, Stephanie (April 10, 2023). "The Forgotten Girls by Monica Potts review – addiction and escape in the Ozarks". The Guardian.
  5. ↑ "Monica Potts". New America. Retrieved 2023-08-15.
  6. ↑ Potts, Monica. "Monica Potts Author Archive". NYMag. Retrieved 2023-08-15.
  7. ↑ Potts, Monica (2019-10-04). "Opinion | In the Land of Self-Defeat". The New York Times. ISSN 0362-4331. Retrieved 2023-08-15.
  8. ↑ "Monica Potts". The Nation. 2016-10-12. Retrieved 2023-08-15.
  9. ↑ Potts, Monica. "Monica Potts". The Atlantic. Retrieved 2023-08-15.
  10. ↑ "Monica Potts". The New Republic. Retrieved 2023-08-15.
  11. ↑ Potts, Monica (2023-08-08). "How Less-educated Whites Fell Behind and Blamed Race". The Texas Observer. Retrieved 2023-08-15.
  12. ↑ "Monica Potts". Vice.com. Retrieved 2023-08-15.
  13. ↑ "Monica Potts". Vogue. Retrieved 2023-08-15.
  14. ↑ Snyder, Rachel Louise (2023-04-17). "Young, White, Female and Dying of Despair in Rural America". The New York Times. Retrieved 2024-10-27.
  15. ↑ Snyder, Rachel Louise (2023-04-17). "Young, White, Female and Dying of Despair in Rural America". The New York Times. ISSN 0362-4331. Retrieved 2023-08-15.
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