about

Arielle Angel (b. 1984) grew up in Miami, Florida and lives in Brooklyn, New York. She is the editor of Jewish Currents and a frequent host of the Jewish Currents podcast, On the Nose.

She has been awarded artist residencies at Hub-Bub in Spartanburg, South Carolina; Woodstock Byrdcliffe Artists Guild in Woodstock, New York; the Kimmel Harding Nelson Center for the Arts in Nebraska City; Brush Creek Foundation for the Arts in Saratoga, Wyoming; Jentel in Banner, Wyoming; and Abode Farm in New Lebanon, NY. She was a 2018 New Jewish Culture Fellow and a 2016 Fellow at Tent: Creative Writing at The Yiddish Book Center in Amherst, Massachusetts. In addition to Jewish Currents, her work has appeared in The Guardian, Guernica, and Off Assignment.

She received her MFA in Fiction from Columbia University ('12), and also holds a degree in Studio Art and Creative Writing from NYU ('06).