Amanda Feinman

Amanda Feinman is an associate nonfiction editor for Guernica and writes about gender and culture. She has an MA in cultural reporting and criticism from NYU Journalism and a BA in English from Vassar College. She and her dog live in Brooklyn, NY.
Left: Book cover of "Hangsaman" by Shirley Jackson. Right: portrait of Shirley Jackson

Ruth Franklin: Shirley Jackson and the Madness of Mid-Century Womanhood

By and January 24, 2022
Jackson’s biographer on the author’s fragmented female characters — and her critical renaissance

Lucile Scott: Mysticism and Resistance

By June 25, 2021
The author of An American Covenant discusses the women and queer mystics who influenced American counterculture.