Alex Laughlin

Alex Sujong Laughlin (@alexlaughs) (she/her) is a writer and audio producer.

Her writing has been featured in Harper’s Bazaar, Catapult, Zora, Study Hall, Literary Hub, and more. She has created podcasts for The New York Times, The Washington Post, Defector Media, BuzzFeed, NBC, and Spotify, and she has taught journalism at New York University and the Craig Newmark Graduate School of Journalism at CUNY.

She currently writes about gender and media for The Poynter Institute and she is working on a book about the history and sociology of ghost stories in the United States. She is interested in creating work that interrogates power in relation to visibility, narrative-making, and collective memory. She lives in New Haven, Connecticut with her husband and their trash cat, Pong.