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A dystopian America that feels close to home
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Serena Puang’s Work

Serena Puang is a journalist and cultural critic currently based in Baton Rouge, Louisiana. If you’d like to pitch me a book, please read more about my book preferences here. I am open to comissions.

You can get in touch here.

Feature writing:

Opinion

I also wrote a bi-weekly column about books and culture for the Yale Daily News called “Reading the Room.” It’s found a new home at Rooted (formerly known as SPRHDRS).

Essays/Cultural Criticism:

Boston Globe

During my 12 weeks in Boston, I wrote over twenty stories ranging from Q&As (I interviewed Chris Evan about “Lightyear” and his viral Boston accent slip) to in depth reported features (my favorites linked below). In addition to pitching over half my own stories, I also pitched, reported, and produced a reported audio feature about English teachers of color in Asia as part of the AAJA Voices program. If you want more information about my time in Boston, you can check out this archive of my work or my Boston Globe author page.

IndyStar:

I started my journalism journey at the IndyStar. Here’s what I got up to that first summer in journalism.