Stephanie Kutner
As seen in:
HuffPost,
Al Jazeera English,
The Jerusalem Post,
Jewish Telegraphic Agency,
Las Vegas Sun,
Guardian Liberty Voice,
Desert Companion,
Philadelphia Jewish Exponent,
The Culture-ist,
St. Louis Jewish Light
and
Covers:
Belarus, gardening, labor, literature, history, antisemitism, Judaism, self-sufficiency, Las Vegas
Words in Kweli Journal, AJ English, J-Post, JTA News, Huff Po, Desert Companion, Helen Lit Mag and elsewhere. She/her. New Zine: Hapax
Interview
What was your first job as a journalist?
Freelancer, I've always been a freelancer, unofficial, mostly op-ed writer
Who's your favorite fictional journalist?
Hunter S. Thompson because Ibogaine, and also, I'm from Vegas
What does it mean to be a journalist?
To be a real-time historian and one of the last watch dogs of democracy
What's the funniest news-related #hashtag you've seen?
Who do you wish followed you?
Rebecca Solnit, Ibram X. Kendi, Maggie Nelson, Trever Noah, Leslie Jamison, Anglea Davis and the ghost of Fred Thompson
Did you work for your high school newspaper? If so, what did you do there?
I did not. I dropped out of high school, but I always wrote.
What advice can you offer to aspiring journalists?
Don't ask for permission, just go for it (in terms of pitching, not making up facts)
What's the worst pitch you ever got?
When I was working as an acquisitions editor at a Young Adult Press someone pitched a novel that was written from the perspective of a colon
Aside from your own, what's your favorite publication to read?
Kweli Journal, voices from the diaspora which are lacking in mainstream media and the literary journal scene
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