Ruby Haack

Background

About Ruby Haack

I recently graduated from Sarah Lawrence College with a BA in postcolonial literature and nonfiction writing, and with a focus in food studies and Spanish. In November of 2016, I founded Youth Empowerment Project, a student-led, self-published zine that, for the next three years, highlighted student art and writing. In my final year of college, I served as an Editor-in-Chief for Love and Squalor, a Sarah Lawrence-based literary magazine; a reader for Variant Literature; an editorial intern for Minnesota Prison Writing Workshop (MPWW); and a Centenary intern at PEN America's Prison and Justice Writing program (PJW). For MPWW, I served as the assistant editor for American Precariat: A Parable of Exclusions, that was published with Coffee House Press on November 15th, 2023, and with PEN PJW, I served as the editor of Thank the Bloom: 2023 Prison Writing Awards, an annual anthology that publishes non-fiction, poetry, fiction, and drama written by writers who are incarcerated. Relevant undergraduate research projects include-"'Thrown into the Sea Like Rejected Bananas': Magical Realism as History in One Hundred Years of Solitude"-"Agroecology and the Repeasantization of Global and Local Food Systems"-"Education within Urban Agriculture: Creating Spaces for Black Liberation"-"'The Masterpiece of a Maggot': Gender, Class, and the 'Metabolic Rift' in Josephine Johnsons’s Now in November"-"'Who’s We?': Collectivization and Citizenship in The Grapes of Wrath and Whose Names are Unknown."