Carina del Valle Schorske

Carina del Valle Schorske is a writer, translator, and wannabe backup dancer. Her essays about popular music—Smokey Robinson, The Pointer Sisters, Leonard Cohen, Eddie Palmieri, Lucinda Williams, and Bad Bunny—have been published in The Believer, Oxford American, the Paris Review Daily, the New Yorker, and The New York Times Magazine, where she is a Contributing Writer. In 2021, she won a National Magazine Award for her cover story on grief and belonging on apocalyptic dance floors. In 2022, she earned her PhD in Comparative Literature from Columbia University. Her debut essay collection, The Other Island, is forthcoming from Riverhead.