This Spring, the OA will focus on food.
Through fresh reporting, in-depth profiles, and daring personal essays, this issue will explore what we eat: people, industries, and tastes that both build and challenge our ideas of Southern food.
Carina Del Valle Schorske
About
Carina Del Valle Schorske is a writer and translator of Puerto Rican poetry. Her essays and criticism have been published in many venues including Bookforum, The Believer, Virginia Quarterly Review, and the New York Times Magazine, where she is a contributing writer. In 2022, she won a National Magazine Award for her cover story on grief and belonging on plague-time dance floors. Her debut essay collection, The Other Island, is forthcoming from Riverhead Books.