Monica Potts

Monica Potts is an American journalist and non-fiction writer. She wrote for The American Prospect^[1] and FiveThirtyEight.^[2] She is currently a staff writer covering class politics for The New Republic.^[3] In 2012 she won The Sidney Award.

Monica Potts speaking at an event on homelessness

Life

Potts grew up in Clinton, Arkansas.^[4] She graduated from Bryn Mawr College and Columbia University. In 2016, she was a New America fellow.^[5]

Her work has appeared in New York,^[6] The New York Times,^[7] The Nation,^[8] The Atlantic,^[9] The New Republic,^[10] The Texas Observer,^[11] Vice,^[12] Vogue,^[13] and NPR.

In 2023, Random House published Potts's first non-fiction book, "The Forgotten Girls: A Memoir of Friendship and Lost Promise in Rural America". The book explores the lives of rural American women in Clinton, Arkansas, Potts's hometown.^[14]

Works

• The Forgotten Girls. Random House. 2023-05-30. ISBN 978-0-593-73089-8. ^[15]