This podcast features alumna author Sophie Brickman, class of 2002. Sophie is a writer, journalist, and editor whose work has appeared in the “New Yorker,” the “New York Times,” the “Wall Street Journal,” “Saveur,” the “San Francisco Chronicle,” the “Best Food Writing” compilation, and the “Best American Science Writing” compilation, among other publications. She is a contributor to the op/ed section of the “Guardian,” and her first book, “Baby, Unplugged,” explored the intersection between parenting and technology.

Her second book, and debut novel, is “Plays Well With Others.”

This podcast features alumna author Daphne Uviller, class of 1989. She is the author of the Zephyr Zuckerman Series: “Super in the City,” “Hotel No Tell,” and “Wife of the Day.” Her first book was an acclaimed anthology, coedited with Deborah Siegel, “Only Child: Writers on the Singular Joys and Solitary Sorrows of Growing Up Solo.”

A former book and poetry editor at “Time Out New York,” Daphne's reviews, profiles, and articles have been published in the “Washington Post, the “New York Times,” “Newsday,” the “Forward,” “New York Magazine,” “Oxygen,” “Allure,” and “Self,” for which she wrote a column on ethics.

Her most recent novel is “This Was Not the Plan.”

This podcast features alumnus Grant Kleiser, class of 2013. Grant is a teacher of history at Trinity and recently passed his doctoral defense at Columbia University in the City of New York and will receive his PhD in May 2024. Grant’s dissertation explored free ports in the Atlantic region where goods and services could be traded with less oversight than in most European imperial ports. He received his undergraduate degree "summa cum laude" from the University of Pennsylvania. At Columbia he spent five years teaching subjects ranging from the history of the Caribbean to the Atlantic slave trade to modern Europe. He has conducted research in archives around the United States; Seville, Spain; London, England; and Aix-en-Provence, France.

This podcast features alumnus author David Grosz, class of 1993. David is editorial director and chief digital officer at Cahiers d’Art Institute, a publisher of catalogues raisonnés of leading twentieth and twenty-first century artists and architects, including Frank Gehry, Sam Gilliam, Robert Irwin, Ellsworth Kelly, Sol LeWitt, Agnes Martin, and Niki de Saint Phalle. David is a graduate of Yale University and received an MFA in creative writing from Brooklyn College.

His debut novel is “Providence.”

This podcast features alumna author Nicole Ruane, class of 1988. Nicole is senior lecturer in classics, humanities, and Italian Studies at University of New Hampshire. She was previously a visiting assistant professor at Syracuse University, a lecturer at Northeastern University, and an instructor at Union Theological Seminary and The General Theological Seminary. She has published numerous scholarly articles about gender, sacrifice, and ritual in the Bible and her work was included in “A Question of Sex? Gender and Difference in the Hebrew Bible and Beyond,” edited by Deborah Rooke as well as other collections.

Her book is “Sacrifice and Gender in Biblical Law.”

This podcast features alumnus author Scott Newman, class of 2017. Scott is a writer, editor, podcast host, and founder. He has visited nearly forty countries and has lived in Amman, Antibes, New York, Sydney, and Paris.

His debut book is “The Night Before the Morning After.”

This podcast features alumnus author Jason Schwartzman, class of 2008. Jason is a writer, senior editor, biographer, and teacher. His writing has appeared in the “New York Times,” “New York Magazine,” “Narratively,” “Gothamist,” “Hobart,” “BULL,” “River Teeth,” “X-R-A-Y,” and other publications. Jason lives in Berkeley, California, with his wife, Alexandra, and their dog, Stella.

His debut book is, “No One You Know.”

This podcast features alumnus author Cyrus R. K. Patell, class of 1979. Cyrus is professor of English at New York University in New York. He received his AB, AM, and PhD in English and American literature and language from Harvard University. His scholarship and teaching centers on the theory and practice of world literature; cosmopolitanism; Global Shakespeare; “Star Wars;” minority discourse theory; literary historiography; and US literary history. He is the author of “Emergent U.S. Literatures” and “Cosmopolitanism and the Literary Imagination.” He is presently at work on “What in the World is a Global Text?” as well as a study of the ways in which Shakespeare's “Hamlet” became a part of global cultural heritage. He is coediting volume eight of the twelve-volume “Oxford History of the Novel in English” on the American novel after 1940.

His most recent book is “Lucasfilm: Filmmaking, Philosophy, and the Star Wars Universe.”