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 has received awards from the BBC, Crab Orchard Review and Jewish Quarterly.
SELECTED JOURNALISM
"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
"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
"The Last Relics Of Iraq's Jewish Past Are In America. Should They Be Returned?" The Forward, July 15, 2018 (Part 1 of 3)
"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
"How The 87-Year-Old Founder Of Jewish Environmentalism Helped Me Grow," The Forward, May 15, 2016
