Kate Daloz, National Fellow, is the director of the Graduate School of Arts and Sciences Writing Studio at Columbia University. Daloz’s first book, We Are As Gods: Back to the Land in the 1970s on the Quest for a New America (PublicAffairs, 2016) explores the role of privilege in utopian communities. Her new book expands the story of her grandmother’s 1944 death by self-induced abortion into a 300-year history of reproductive healthcare in America. Using her family’s line of mothers as the book’s central narrative, she illustrates how Americans across communities have managed fertility, birth, and birth control for centuries, especially highlighting the ways white supremacy has restricted and compelled reproductive experience for people of color.
Daloz’s work has appeared in print and online in the New Yorker, Rolling Stone, Esquire, and the American Scholar, among other publications. She lives in Brooklyn, New York.
Selected Work
- My Grandmother’s Desperate Choice: An essay for the New Yorker telling the story of the author’s grandmother’s death by self-induced abortion in 1944.