This podcast features alumna author Sophie Brickman, class of 2002. Sophie is a writer, journalist, and editor whose work has appeared in the “New Yorker,” the “New York Times,” the “Wall Street Journal,” “Saveur,” the “San Francisco Chronicle,” the “Best Food Writing” compilation, and the “Best American Science Writing” compilation, among other publications. She is a contributor to the op/ed section of the “Guardian,” and her first book, “Baby, Unplugged,” explored the intersection between parenting and technology.

Her second book, and debut novel, is “Plays Well With Others.”

This podcast features alumna author Daphne Uviller, class of 1989. She is the author of the Zephyr Zuckerman Series: “Super in the City,” “Hotel No Tell,” and “Wife of the Day.” Her first book was an acclaimed anthology, coedited with Deborah Siegel, “Only Child: Writers on the Singular Joys and Solitary Sorrows of Growing Up Solo.”

A former book and poetry editor at “Time Out New York,” Daphne's reviews, profiles, and articles have been published in the “Washington Post, the “New York Times,” “Newsday,” the “Forward,” “New York Magazine,” “Oxygen,” “Allure,” and “Self,” for which she wrote a column on ethics.

Her most recent novel is “This Was Not the Plan.”

This podcast features alumnus Grant Kleiser, class of 2013. Grant is a teacher of history at Trinity and recently passed his doctoral defense at Columbia University in the City of New York and will receive his PhD in May 2024. Grant’s dissertation explored free ports in the Atlantic region where goods and services could be traded with less oversight than in most European imperial ports. He received his undergraduate degree "summa cum laude" from the University of Pennsylvania. At Columbia he spent five years teaching subjects ranging from the history of the Caribbean to the Atlantic slave trade to modern Europe. He has conducted research in archives around the United States; Seville, Spain; London, England; and Aix-en-Provence, France.