Alissa Quart

Who is Alissa Quart?

Alissa Quart is a nonfiction writer, critic, journalist, editor, and poet based in New York City. Her books are Republic of Outsiders: The Power of Amateurs, Dreamers and Rebels, Hothouse Kids: The Dilemma of the Gifted Child, and Branded: The Buying and Selling of Teenagers. Branded has been translated into French, German, Spanish, Italian, Japanese, and Finnish; Hothouse Kids has been published in South Korea and the UK. In addition to having been excerpted in The Nation, O magazine, Salon, and Daily Beast, Republic of Outsiders has a forthcoming Chinese edition. Quart's articles and reviews have appeared in The Atlantic, the New York Times Sunday Review, The Nation, Newsweek, Reuters, Mother Jones, and Marie Claire, and she has appeared on Nightline, 20/20, the Today Show, CNN, CBC, and C-Span.

She coined the term hyperlink cinema in 2005 and popularized the term hipster sexism. She was an editor at large for the Atavist, an award-winning nonfiction iPad and enhanced ebook publisher, teaches as an adjunct professor at Columbia University's Graduate School of Journalism, and is a 2010 Nieman Fellowship recipient.