Dr. Eve L. Ewing

Dr. Eve L. Ewing
Dr. Eve L. Ewing

Dr. Eve L. Ewing is a sociologist of education and a writer from Chicago. She is the award-winning author of four books: the Afrofuturist poetry collections Electric Arches and 1919, the nonfiction work Ghosts in the Schoolyard: Racism and School Closings on Chicago’s South Side, and most recently a novel for young readers, Maya and the Robot. She is the co-author (with Nate Marshall) of the play No Blue Memories: The Life of Gwendolyn Brooks. She has written several projects for Marvel Comics, including the Ironheart series as well as Marvel Team-Up and Champions and contributions to Fearless and Marvel #1000. Ewing is an assistant professor at the University of Chicago Crown Family School of Social Work, Policy, and Practice. Her work has been published in The New Yorker, The Atlantic, The New York Times, and many other venues. 

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Dr. Eve L. Ewing Bibliography

No Blue Memories: The Life of Gwendolyn Brooks, with Nate Marshall, 2017 (play)
Ghosts in the Schoolyard: Racism and School Closings on Chicago’s South Side, University of Chicago Press, 2018 (non-fiction)
1919, Haymarket Books, 2019 (poetry)
Electric Arches, Haymarket Books, 2019 (poetry)
Maya and the Robot, Kokila, 2021