When asked about artist and award-winning New York Times art director Jerelle Kraus, legendary artist Ralph Steadman said she “has the eye of a hawk and the heart of a revolutionary.”
Jerelle’s writing has appeared in The New Yorker, The New York Times, Print Magazine, USA Today, City Magazine, and The Huffington Post; and in the literary journals American Chordata, The Louisville Review, Crack the Spine, Sleet Magazine, Hawaii Pacific Review, and México hoy.
As a speaker, she’s given talks at Princeton University, New York University, Westport Public Library, The New York Public Library’s flagship branch, and the Literary Sala of San Miguel de Allende, Mexico.
As a professor, she’s taught French at San Francisco's Conservatory of Music and English at New York’s Fordham University; and as a judge, she’s judged art competitions in Manhattan, Macedonia, New Jersey, and Istanbul.
Jerelle studied at Swarthmore and Pomona Colleges and received her MA at UC Berkeley. She wrote her philosophy thesis in French while on a grant in Paris and spent a year on a Fulbright scholarship languishing in Munich.
She speaks French, German, and Spanish.
