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Aubrey Hirsch with her hamster, French Fries

Aubrey Hirsch is a writer and illustrator from Cleveland, Ohio, who has published personal essays and comics in the New York Times, Time Magazine, Vox, The Nib, and elsewhere.[1][2][3][4] She published a short story collection, Why We Never Talk About Sugar, in 2013, and her essays and stories have been published in anthologies and collections, including Roxane Gay's Not That Bad: Dispatches from Rape Culture, Ways of Reading: An Anthology for Writers, and Pittsburgh Noir.[5][6][7] Hirsch is a 2022 National Endowment for the Arts Fellow in Creative Writing and a 2022 Sustainable Arts Foundation award winner for graphic memoir.[8][9][10]

Hirsch's essays and comics explore gender equality, parenting, sexuality, friendship, public health, and other social equity issues.[11][12][13][14][15][16][17][18][19][20] She has written about being subjected to threats and internet harassment because of her public feminism and advocacy for marginalized communities.[21][22][23]

References

  1. ^ Hirsch, Aubrey (October 10, 2014). "In Matters of the Heart, We're in This Together". The New York Times.
  2. ^ "Aubrey Hirsch". Time.
  3. ^ "Search - Vox". www.vox.com.
  4. ^ "Aubrey Hirsch". The Nib.
  5. ^ "'Why We Never Talk About Sugar': A story collection explores relationships without the sugar coating". Pittsburgh Post-Gazette.
  6. ^ "Column: Why this wasn't just another week on the #MeToo front lines". San Diego Union-Tribune. May 4, 2018.
  7. ^ "Ways of Reading, 12th Edition | Macmillan Learning for Instructors". www.macmillanlearning.com.
  8. ^ "Aubrey Hirsch".
  9. ^ "Here are the 2022 National Endowment for the Arts Creative Writing Fellows". January 11, 2022.
  10. ^ "Sustainable Arts Foundation". www.sustainableartsfoundation.org.
  11. ^ "Women's Health Isn't Taken As Seriously As Men's, So One Artist Is Speaking Out". HuffPost UK. August 1, 2017.
  12. ^ "Online Fiction: Interview with Aubrey Hirsch -". October 3, 2011.
  13. ^ "Smoking With Aubrey Hirsch". SmokeLong Quarterly.
  14. ^ Gay, Roxane (February 8, 2011). "Ask The Author: Aubrey Hirsch".
  15. ^ ""Less of a Victim and More of a Perpetrator": An Interview with Aubrey Hirsch". The Rupture.
  16. ^ Brabaw, Kasandra. "This Comic Nails The Truth About Women's Experience With Doctors". www.refinery29.com.
  17. ^ "Quick Hit: Powerful Comic Documents Sexism in Medicine". Feministing.
  18. ^ Nierenberg, Amelia; Pasick, Adam (September 25, 2020). "Young People Are Spreading the Virus". The New York Times.
  19. ^ Hirsch, Aubrey (December 9, 2020). "How the pandemic is forcing women out of the workforce, explained in a comic". Vox.
  20. ^ "This Artist Nails How the Pandemic Has Impacted Women". Motherly. July 14, 2021.
  21. ^ "That's How It Works When You're a Woman on the Internet". lyz.substack.com.
  22. ^ Hirsch, Aubrey. "How to Be a Woman on the Internet". audacity.substack.com.
  23. ^ Hirsch, Aubrey (June 7, 2021). "Forever Alone". The Nib.