Eve Ewing

Eve Louise Ewing (born 1986 or 1987) is an academic, American scholar, writer and visual artist from Chicago. She is a sociologist of education, at the University of Chicago with research focused on school closures. She is a former editor at Seven Scribes and the author of Electric Arches (Haymarket Books, September 2017). 2Early life Ewing grew up in the Logan Square neighborhood of Chicago. Her mother worked as a radio reporter and producer and her father an artist. Ewing attended Chicago public schools, then the University of Chicago for college. She earned an MAT in Elementary Education from Dominican University and taught middle school science in Chicago public schools before moving to Boston where she earned an M.Ed in Education Policy and Management (2013), then a doctorate from Harvard University's Graduate School of Education (2016). 2Career 3Writing Ewing's writing includes poetry, prose and journalism, in addition to her academic scholarship. 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 The Huffington Post, Zeba Blay named Ewing's essay on Joshua Beal's death to a list of "30 Of The Most Important Articles By People Of Color In 2016." At NPR, Gene Demby praised Ewing's "moving essay...about the fight over the future of Dyett High in Chicago." In Chicago Magazine in 2017, Adam Morgan described her as one of the city's "most visible cultural icons." Ewing has also drawn notice for her commentary on subjects like colorism, school choice, federal arts funding, Frank Ocean and Harper Lee, race in publishing and in visual cultur