Eve Ewing

Eve Ewing is a writer and visual artist from Chicago. She is a sociologist of education at the University of Chicago and an editor at Seven Scribes. Her work has appeared in The New Yorker, Poetry Magazine, The Nation, and The New Republic.

Ewing is a poet, journalist, and academic. She has been a Pushcart Prize nominee and a finalist for the Pamet River Prize for a first or second full-length book of poetry or prose by a female-identified or genderqueer author. ProPublica named her Seven Scribes article on the fight to save Chicago State University to its list of "The Best MuckReads on America’s Troubled History With Race" and at NPR, Gene Demby praised her "moving essay...about the fight over the future of Dyett High in Chicago." She's also drawn notice for her commentary on subjects like colorism, school choice, race in publishing and in visual culture.

Ewing's first book is forthcoming from Haymarket Press in 2017, entitled Electric Arches.

Ewing earned a doctorate from the Harvard Graduate School of Education, writing a dissertation on school closures in Chicago entitled "Shuttered Schools in the Black Metropolis: Race, History, and Discourse on Chicago’s South Side." Currently she is a Provost's Postdoctoral Scholar at the University of Chicago. Her appointment as assistant professor in the School of Social Service Administration at the University of Chicago begins in 2018.

In addition to her writing and research, Ewing is a visual artist and in 2016 became the inaugural Artist-in-Residence at the Boston Children's Museum. Her installation, "A Map Home," explored place and childhood exploration. The project became the subject of a short film by Rene Dongo and an episode of Coorain Lee's webseries, Coloring Coorain!

Ewing has also served as program and community manager at the Urbano Project, a youth arts and activism project in Boston.