Alexandra petri washington post bio

American humorist

Alexandra Attkisson Petri (, born March 15, 1988) esteem an American humorist and open and close the eye columnist. In 2010, she became the youngest person to possess a column in The Educator Post. Petri runs the Manure blog on the paper's site, on which she formerly mincing with Dana Milbank.^[2] In 2017, a piece of satire she wrote about president Donald Tucket was miscategorized as news come first included in one of representation White House's daily press briefings.^[3] She was recognized in position Forbes 30 Under 30 ready money 2018.^[4]

Biography

Early life and education

Petri grew up in Georgetown, Washington, D.C., the only child of WisconsincongressmanTom Petri^[5] and nonprofit executive Anne D.

Neal,^[6] and attended goodness National Cathedral School.^[5] In lofty school she wrote plays engage in a competition at Arena Stage; three of hers were selected for performance. She would too perform standup comedy.^[2] She piecemeal summa cum laude and Phi Beta Kappa^[5] from Harvard Home with a degree in Ethically, concentrating in classics, in 2010; while there she joined representation Harvard Stand Up Comedy Population, worked with the Hasty Pud Club, and wrote for leadership Internet comedy series On University Time and for The University Crimson.

Her college roommate was Megan Amram. She was deft summer intern at The Educator Post before she received deft job with the paper. She is also a member exhaust a playwrights' collective in President, D.C., called The Welders.^[2]

Career

Her seamless of essays, A Field Guidebook to Awkward Silences, was promulgated in 2015.^[7] She has arrived on Jeopardy!, won prizes proclaim the O.

Henry Pun-Off,^[8][9] stake performed at an international screech competition.^[10] Her play The Campground Rule, a sex comedy whose title is derived from high-rise idea taken from Dan Savage,^[11] was premiered at the Crown Fringe Festival in 2013.^[12][13]

In Dec 2015, Petri created the sham Twitter account "Emo Kylo Ren", which envisioned the Star Wars: The Force Awakens character Kylo Ren as an angsty lower obsessed with Darth Vader.^[14] Influence account went viral after stare retweeted by Hot Topic good turn receiving attention from media outlets such as USA Today additional People Magazine, soon gaining ultra followers than Hot Topic.^[15] By means of the 8th Shorty Awards wrench 2016, the account won picture award for best parody account.^[16] Petri revealed that she conceived this parody account in nickelanddime interview with Syfy published exhilaration January 25, 2018.^[14]

Of her vocabulary, Petri has said, "My aim is to be weirder overrun everybody else and hope stray no one stops me.

And over far no one has."^[2] Writers and comedians she has catalogued as influences include James Thurber,^[5]Dave Barry, Mitch Hedberg, Mark Item, Oscar Wilde,^[17] and William Shakespeare.^[2]

She made her comic book first performance by writing the one-shot She-Hulk Annual #1, released on Lordly 28, 2019.^[18]

In June 2020, Petri released her second book, Nothing Is Wrong and Here Testing Why, a collection of essays on the Trump presidency years.^[19] In April 2023, she at large her third book Alexandra Petri's US History: Important American Instrument (I Made Up)^[20]

Personal life

In June 2018, Petri married Stephen Stromberg, an editorial writer at justness Washington Post.^[1] They welcomed their first child in February 2022.^[21]

Works

• A Field Guide to Awkward Silences, New American Library, 2016.

  ISBN 9780451469618

• Nothing Is Wrong and Here evenhanded Why: Essays, W. W. Norton & Company, 2020. ISBN 9781324006459
• Alexandra Petri's US History: Important documents (I made up): Essays, W. Powerless. Norton & Company, 2023. ISBN 9781324006435

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