Draft:Hope Reese
American journalist and author
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Hope Reese (born December 20, 1983)[citation needed][1] is a journalist and nonfiction author based in Budapest, Hungary.[2] Her book, The Women Are Not Fine: The Dark History of a Poisonous Sisterhood,[3] was published in July 2025 by Brazen Books, an imprint of Hachette UK.[4] Reese is also featured author in Where Freedom Starts: Sex Power Violence #MeToo: A Verso Report,[5] published by Verso Books in 2018.[6][7][8] She is a regular contributor to The New York Times,[9] where she writes about books for the Well section.[10]
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Comment: The key problem here is that someone can't make themselves notable by what they say or write, notability is shown via other people writing about the subject. Under the particular provisions of WP:NAUTHOR we would be looking for 2 books, 2 reviews of each book, to show notability. Otherwise WP:BASIC applies, which needs ideally 3 profiles of the subject by independent reliable sources, though there is some margin on this. At the moment almost all the sources tie straight back to the author, or do not give independent coverage of the author's work, or it isn't covering the "significant coverage" requirement.If the submitting editor is the subject, knows the subject or has any connection with the subject then this needs to be declared under WP:COI. ChrysGalley (talk) 18:50, 27 January 2026 (UTC)
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Early life and education
Reese was born and raised on Long Island, New York.[2] She earned a Bachelor's degree in psychology, with a minor in education, from Bowdoin College in 2006.[11] In 2012, she received a Master of Liberal Arts in Journalism from Harvard Extension School while working at the Nieman Foundation for Journalism at Harvard.[12]
Career
Journalist
Reese began freelancing for The Atlantic in 2012. Since then, she has written for numerous publications, including The New York Times,[13][14][15][16] Vox,[17][18] The Atlantic,[19] The Boston Globe, and the Chicago Tribune.[20] Her articles are often referenced in scholarly literature,[21][22] syllabi,[23][24] podcasts,[25] healthcare sites,[26] university blogs[27] and policy briefs.[28] Features, interviews,[29][30] and book reviews[31][32][33] are a recurring feature of Reese's work. She spearheaded a "professor series" for The Atlantic, a "public intellectual" series for JSTOR Daily,[34] and regularly contributed to New York Magazine's The Cut for the "How I Get It Done" column.[35] Reese's writing addresses topics spanning technology,[36] psychology,[37][38] gender, culture,[39][40][41] and social issues.[42] In 2024, she was featured on MSNBC's documentary "My Generation," speaking about the Millennial experience — in particular, from a feminist angle.[43]
From 2015 to 2017, Reese was a staff writer at TechRepublic,[44] where she covered artificial intelligence,[45][46] writing about topics from sex robots[47] to bias in machine learning[48] to driverless cars.[49][50] Her article in 2016 in which she asked AI to predict the superfecta of the Kentucky Derby earned global attention,[51] and she was featured on media outlets from CBS[52] to ESPN.[53]
Reese also taught journalism at Indiana University Southeast from 2017 to 2019.[54]
Author
Reese is the author of The Women Are Not Fine: The Dark History of a Poisonous Sisterhood, published by Brazen Books. The book examines a series of early 20th-century poisonings in a Hungarian village, known as the "angel-makers" case, in which a midwife named Zsuzsanna Fazekas distributes poison to local women, who mass-murder their husbands, many of whom were abusive.[55] In her book, Reese draws on archival newspapers, court records, and police files, and interviews local historians, psychologists, and others, to get a complete picture of not just what happened, but why.[56][57]
The book was favorably reviewed by the Telegraph,[58][59] the Literary Review,[60] Konyves Magazin,[61] the Bookseller,[62] and other publications. Foyles listed it as a Top 10 Reads for July.[63] Reese has discussed the book on podcasts including BBC Radio 4's Woman's Hour,[64] The Irish Times Women's Podcast,[65] and ABC Radio National's Nightlife.[66]
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