abigail covington

I'm a contributing editor at Esquire, where I was formerly the weekend editor. My journalism, essays, and criticism have appeared in Rolling Stone, The New York Times, The Los Angeles Times, The Daily Beast, The Washington Post, Slate, The Nation, Them, Oxford American, and Pitchfork. My article "When the Fire Broke Out" was included in The Best American Essays 2016. Longreads included my feature, “What Do We Do With Robert E. Lee?”, on its Best of 2019 list. My investigation into book banning in North Dakota was nominated for an Eli M. Oboler Memorial Award. I have a B.A. in Creative Writing and Politics from the College of William and Mary and an M.A. in Journalism from Columbia University, where I was awarded a narrative nonfiction fellowship by the Delacorte Center for Magazine Journalism. I'm originally from North Carolina and currently live in Brooklyn with my partner and grumpy hound dog.