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Eve, a light skinned Black woman, leans forward, smiling slightly and looking off camera. Her dark brown hair is braided close to her head and she has on bright red lipstick and a high-collared button-up shirt. She is wearing winged eyeliner and has freckles.

Photo by Nolis Anderson.

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Eve L. Ewing

She // Her // Hers

Writer and Scholar

Chicago, Illinois

Dr. Eve L. Ewing is a sociologist of education and a writer from Chicago. Ewing is the author, most recently, of the poetry collection 1919 and the nonfiction work Ghosts in the Schoolyard: Racism and School Closings on Chicago’s South Side. Her first book, the poetry collection Electric Arches, received awards from the American Library Association and the Poetry Society of America and was named one of the year’s best books by NPR and the Chicago Tribune. She is coauthor (with Nate Marshall) of the play No Blue Memories: The Life of Gwendolyn Brooks. She also currently writes the Champions series for Marvel Comics and previously wrote the acclaimed Ironheart series, as well as other projects.

She is an assistant professor at the University of Chicago School of Social Service Administration. Her work has been published in The New Yorker, The Atlantic, The New York Times, and many other venues. Her first book for young readers, Maya and the Robot, will be published by Kokila Books in summer 2021. Currently, Ewing is working on her next book, Original Sins: The (Mis)education of Black and Native Children and the Construction of American Racism, which will be published by One World.

Donor -This award was generously supported by The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation.

This artist page was last updated on: 09.03.2024

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Trevor Noah interviews Eve L. Ewing on The Daily Show, 2018.

Video courtesy of The Daily Show.

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We Real Cool, 2017. Video. 5:59 minutes. Created by Manual Cinema in association with Crescendo Literary, with story by Eve L. Ewing and Nate Marshall. Music by Jamila Woods and Ayanna Woods.

Video courtesy of the Poetry Foundation