“Quart is a sympathetic listener, getting people to reveal not just the tenuousness of their economic situations but also the turbulence of their emotional lives…we could all use her expert guidance through the maze.”
—The New York Times
Profiles oF Alissa
Oct. 2022 | "Barbara Ehrenreich Was ‘Ready for Battle’," Capital & Main and Sacramento News & Review
Sep. 2022 | "Barbara Ehrenreich Remembered: How She Covered Poverty & Started Economic Hardship Reporting Project," Democracy Now!
Feb. 2022 | "The American dream of the middle class isn’t what it used to be," CNBC
Sep. 2021 | "The end of the middle class: Why prosperity is failing in America," Big Think
Dec. 2019 | Profile, The Brooklyn Rail
Oct. 2019 | "How To Make 'Thoughts and Prayers' Meaningful," Nylon
Mar. 2019 | Profile, Institute for New Economic Thinking
Nov. 2018 | "How To Tell An American Story," Nylon
Aug. 2018 | "Success of Uber and GoFundMe points to larger failures, says award-winning author," CNBC Make It
Aug. 2018 | "Barbara Ehrenreich and Alissa Quart on Changing the Narrative of Poverty in Media," Bitch Media
Jul. 2018 | "How Americans Are Getting 'Squeezed' By High Cost Of Living," NPR’s Here & Now
Jun. 2018 | "For the struggling middle class, Alissa Quart has a message: you're not alone," The Guardian
Dec. 2017 | "Columbia Journalism School Announces 2018 Alumni Award Winners," Columbia Journalism School
Apr. 2015 | "The Money Poet," The New Yorker
Apr. 2015 | "New Poetry Collection Depicts the Decline of Legacy Media," The New York Observer
Mar. 2015 I "It's Only Money," Nieman Reports
Sept. 2014 | "Film as Long-form," Nieman Reports
Nov. 2013 | "Full Quart Press," The Writer
Sept. 2006 | "Prodigies and the push to excel," Los Angeles Times
Sept. 2006 | "The Downside of Being a Child Prodigy," TIME
Aug. 2005 | Term "Hyperlink Cinema" coined by Alissa Quart
Jan. 2003 | "Marketers Crank It Up For a New Generation," The New York Times
About Alissa
Alissa Quart is the author of five acclaimed books of nonfiction including Bootstrapped: Liberating Ourselves from the American Dream (Ecco, 2023), Squeezed (Ecco/HarperCollins, 2018), Republic of Outsiders (The New Press, 2013), Hothouse Kids (Penguin Press, 2006), and Branded (Basic Books, 2004). She is the Executive Director of the non-profit the Economic Hardship Reporting Project and is also the author of two books of poetry, Thoughts and Prayers and Monetized. She has written for many publications including The Washington Post, The New York Times, and TIME. Her honors include an Emmy, an SPJ award, and received a Nieman fellowship. She lives with her family in Brooklyn.