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Arielle Zibrak’s writing on literature, gender, sexuality, and popular culture has been praised by The New York Times, Longreads, PopMatters, Book Riot, and Bookforum and published in American Literature, American Literary History, Arizona Quarterly, The Baffler, Criticism, The Edith Wharton Review, ESQ, J19, LitHub, The Los Angeles Review of Books, The Millions, The Missouri Review, and Women’s Studies. Her humor writing has been published in The New Yorker, McSweeney’s, and The Toast.

Originally from Newton, Massachusetts, she moved to New York to work at Random House, where she was an Assistant Editor of women’s fiction. She left publishing to pursue a Ph.D. in 19th-century American Literature at Boston University and is now Professor of English at the University of Wyoming.

She is the author of two books, Avidly Reads Guilty Pleasures (New York University Press, 2021) and Writing Against Reform: Aesthetic Realism in the Progressive Era (University of Massachusetts Press, 2024); as well as the editor of Edith Wharton’s The Age of Innocence: New Centenary Essays (Bloomsbury, 2019) and Twelve Stories by American Women, a more inclusive update to their Four Stories volume, from Penguin Classics in 2025. Her streaming series,“A Literary Tour of the United States,” was released in July 2025 by the Great Courses Plus platform.

She has two cats and is usually at work on two books. Currently: a public history of consumer feminism, wellness, and new-age philosophy as well as a collection of research-based personal essays that examine how we process trauma both individually and collectively.