My name is Laura Tanenbaum. I’m a writer who has published book reviews and essays about feminism, the left, literature and memoir for places including Jacobin, Dissent, The New York Times Book Review, In these Times, Open Letters Monthly, and The New Republic. I’ve also published fiction and poetry in places including Narrative, Cleaver Magazine, juked, and Aji.
I studied Comparative Literature at Smith College and New York University, where I was active in the graduate student unionization movement. Since 2007, I’ve been teaching at LaGuardia Community College, where I am currently Professor of English. I teach Creative Writing, Composition, and Literature, and have served the co-chair of the Urban Studies Program, a program devoted to experiential learning in the spirit of John Dewey. During the 2020-2021 academic year I served as the interim chapter chair of LaGuardia’s Chapter of the Professional Staff Caucus, our faculty and staff union.
During the 2022-23 academic I’m on sabbatical which I’m devoting to unfucking my brain and completing a poetry manuscript I’m also doing some little essay-like things on my substack: https://lauratanenbaum.substack.com
I can be reached at laura.tanenbaum@gmail.com, or on twitter, @lauratanenbaum.
I live in Brooklyn with JW Mason, and our sons Eli and Abraham.
Photo by Sarah Klock, lightfantastik.