Nicole Graev Lipson

Biography

Nicole Graev Lipson is the author of the memoir-in-essays Mothers and Other Fictional Characters (Princeton Architectural Press, forthcoming). Her writing has appeared in the Gettysburg Review, Creative Nonfiction, the Washington Post, and the Boston Globe, among other publications, and has been awarded a Pushcart Prize and been shortlisted for The Best American Essays. 

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ESSAYS / Fall 2023

As They Like It

By Nicole Graev Lipson ,  Illustration by Cynthia Kittler

I want my students to fall madly in love with Rosalind. She’s my favorite of all Shakespeare’s heroines, I tell them, pressing my hand to my heart, pretending to swoon.

Illustration by Cynthia Kittler