Hi, I'm Talya
I'm a journalist and editor based in Brooklyn. I'm currently the deputy culture editor of the Forward, and my writing has also appeared in The New York Times and The Atlantic. I've been a finalist for a Deadline Club Award and won awards for profile writing, feature reporting and art criticism from the American Jewish Press Association. My fiction, non-fiction and playwriting have received awards from the BBC, Crab Orchard Review and Jewish Quarterly.
SELECTED JOURNALISM
"A Book So Far Ahead of Its Time, It Took 87 Years to Find a Publisher" The New York Times, February 5, 2020
"The 19th-Century Feminist Novel Pushed Out of the Russian Canon" The Atlantic, November 5, 2019
"Revisiting Hitler, in a New Authoritarian Age" The New York Times, September 29, 2019
"A White Supremacist Murder Devastated Chicago 20 Years Ago. Why Didn't Anything Change?" The Forward, July 2, 2019
"Like Philip Roth, But Feminist: Taffy Brodesser-Akner’s Debut Novel" The Forward, June 18, 2019
"Why Are Men So Obsessed With Resurrecting Anne Frank?" The Forward, December 16, 2018
"Complicity In Nazi Germany — And Here" The Forward, July 20, 2018
"Chaim Soutine Was Obsessed With Dead Animals. In Painting Them, He Acutely Captured Life" The Forward, May 18, 2018
"André Aciman Confronts Exile And Desire" The Forward, February 25, 2018
