Eve Louise Ewing was born on 1986 and is an American sociologist, author, poet, and visual artist from Chicago, Illinois.
26 Facts About Eve Ewing
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Eve Ewing is the former editor at Seven Scribes and the author of the poetry collection Electric Arches which was released in September 2017.
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Additionally, Ewing is the author of the Ironheart comic book series for Marvel centered on the young heroine Riri Williams.
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Eve Ewing grew up in the Logan Square neighborhood of Chicago.
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Eve Ewing's mother worked as a radio reporter and producer and her father an artist.
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Eve Ewing earned a Master of Arts in Teaching in Elementary Education from Dominican University and taught middle school Language Arts in Chicago Public Schools before attending Harvard where she earned a Masters of Education in Education Policy and Management, then a doctorate from Harvard Graduate School of Education.
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At Harvard, Eve Ewing served as editor and co-chair of the Harvard Educational Review.
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Eve Ewing was a Provost's Postdoctoral Scholar at the University of Chicago, then became an assistant professor in the Crown Family School of Social Work, Policy, and Practice from 2018 to 2022.
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Eve Ewing co-created and runs the Emerging Poets Incubator and Chicago Poetry Block Party.
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Eve Ewing teaches with the Prison + Neighborhood Art Project, a visual arts and humanities project that connects teaching artists and scholars to men at Stateville Maximum Security Prison.
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Eve Ewing is on the Board of Directors of Massachusetts-based nonprofit MassLEAP, which builds and supports spaces for youth, artist-educators, and organizers to foster positive youth development through spoken-word poetry forums throughout Massachusetts.
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Eve Ewing is one of the most popular sociologists on Twitter.
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Eve Ewing studied the impact of neighborhood, race, and socio-economics on student access to counselors and therapists, as well as their experiences with illnesses and deaths.
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Eve Ewing's writing includes poetry, prose and journalism, in addition to her academic scholarship.
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Eve Ewing has been a Pushcart Prize nominee and a finalist for the Pamet River Prize for a first or second full-length book of poetry or prose by a female-identified or genderqueer author.
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Eve Ewing has drawn notice for her commentary on subjects like colorism, school choice, structural racism, federal arts funding, Frank Ocean and Harper Lee, race in publishing and in visual culture.
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Much of Eve Ewing's poetry covers similar topics as her scholarly work, such as the Black experience.
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Eve Ewing's poetry has been published in many venues, including Poetry Magazine, the New Yorker, the Atlantic, the Nation, the New Republic, Union Station, and the anthology The Breakbeat Poets: New American Poetry in the Age of Hip-Hop.
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Eve Ewing serves on the editorial board for In These Times, as co-director of arts organization Crescendo Literary, and as co-founder of the Echo Hotel poetry collective with Hanif Abdurraqib.
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Eve Ewing has stated the entire book is based on real-life incidents that have happened to her.
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In 2021, Penguin Random House published Maya and the Robot, written by Eve Ewing and illustrated by Christine Almeda.
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In 2023, Eve Ewing co-wrote the young adult memoir Colin Kaepernick: Change the Game with Colin Kaepernick.
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Eve Ewing is the current writer of the Marvel series Ironheart, the first issue of which was published November 2018.
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Eve Ewing has served as program and community manager at the Urbano Project, a youth arts and activism project in Boston, Massachusetts.
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Eve Ewing launched a podcast called Bughouse Square in October 2018.
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Eve Ewing is married to Damon Jones, an associate professor at the Harris School of Public Policy.