I'm a writer and editor from San Diego, California based in Brooklyn, New York. I currently serve as the associate editor at The Nation, where I run and edit our weekend essay series, The Weekend Read, which features memoir, first-person narratives, and dispatches with a political through line. I am also a contributing editor at Cleveland Review of Books.

 

You can find my essays and criticism in The New York Times Magazine, The Paris Review, The Nation, The Baffler, The New Republic, The Point, and elsewhere. My writing has been featured in Bookforum's "Paper Trail" and Publisher's Weekly, cited by YouTubers and TikTokers, and assigned on syllabi at Cleveland Institute of Art, CUNY's Lehman College, RMIT University, and Yale University, where I have also been a guest lecturer. In 2025, my biographical writing was published in Anonymous Was a Woman: The First 25 Years (Hirmer Publishers & University of Chicago Press). I have received support for my work from the Sundance Institute. 

 

I hold a BA in Political Science from Emory University and an MA in Cultural Reporting & Criticism from New York University, where I taught journalism to undergraduate students. I'm a proud member of the Newsguild of New York. ​​​

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​for pitches: apockros@thenation.com / apockros@clereviewofbooks.com

for anything else: apockros@gmail.com

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Twitter: @Apockros

 

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