About Us

Masthead 2024-25

Eve Michelson-Bianco, Editor-in-Chief

Matthew Mattila, Managing Editor

Tierney Auerbach, Poetry Editor

Michelle Berry, Nonfiction Editor

Gil Bittner, Staff Editor

Fatou Hymes, Fiction Editor

Seth Graves, Faculty Advisor

Past

2023-24	Staff Masthead Letter from the Editor
2022-23	Staff Masthead Letter from the Editor
2021-22	Staff Masthead Letter from the Editor
2020-21	Staff Masthead Letter from the Editor
2019-20	Staff Masthead Letter from the Editor
2018-19	Staff Masthead Letter from the Editor
2017-18	Staff Masthead Letter from the Editor
2016-17	Staff Masthead Print Annual Issue #10: Spring 2017 Letter from the Editor
2015-16	Staff Masthead Print Annual Issue #9: Spring 2016 Letter from the Editor Letter from the Blog Deputy Editor

In the days of my youth, in the days of my youth,
I lay in West Twelfth Street, writhing with Truth.

–E.B. White

12th Street began in the 1940s and was relaunched in 2008. In 2011, 12th Street won the Director’s Prize award for both design and content at the annual Association of Writers and Writing Programs conference (AWP). 12th Street is produced year-round by students enrolled in The New School’s Writing and Democracy Honors Program.

The WDH Program is designed to offer an innovative and comprehensive literary education through a curriculum of writing workshops (fiction, nonfiction, poetry) and literature seminars, culminating in a thesis project. The program creates and fosters a cohesive community of undergraduate writers through regular student readings and other peer group activities, including 12th Street, edited and published by New School undergraduates. In addition, an ongoing series of public readings, literary forums, lectures, symposiums and panel discussions add depth to the program. Scholarships are available for WDH students.

Can I publish on this site?

All students, faculty, staff, and alumni of The New School, including and especially Writing and Democracy Honors program alumns, are urged to submit!

If you have suggestions or requests, email faculty advisor Seth Graves at sgraves@newschool.edu.

The undergraduate magazine of the Riggio Honors Program: Writing and Democracy, alludes to an earlier New School publication of the same name. The artwork reproduced above, by New School student Walter Houmere, originally appeared in the Summer 1945 Issue, Volume I, Number 3 of 12th Street. — The artwork above appeared in the Summer 1945 Issue, vol. I, no. 3 of *12th Street*.
Image credit: Walter Houmere (1945 student)