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Monica Hesse
Monica Hesse (born 1981 or 1982) is an American journalist and author. She is the gender columnist for The Washington Post and a 2023 finalist for the Pulitzer Prize.
Hesse is from Normal, Illinois, where her father, Douglas D. Hesse, taught writing at Illinois State University. Her mother is a therapist.
She attended Bryn Mawr College, where she wrote a column for The Bi-College News and majored in English. She graduated in 2003. In 2009, she earned a master's degree in nonfiction writing from Johns Hopkins University.
During Hesse's junior year of college, she interned at AARP: The Magazine, an experience that led to a full-time job at the publication after she graduated. She moved to Washington, D.C. and began taking freelance assignments for The Washington Post and the tabloid On Tap.
In 2007, Hesse interned for the Post's Style section, later becoming a permanent feature writer. In 2018, she was appointed the newspaper's first ever gender columnist.
In January 2025, the Post scrapped the paper's "gender columnist" role and reassigned Hesse from the Style/"Power" section to the Opinions section after Post editors killed an article recently submitted by her.. This change was confirmed by Hesse herself in an article she wrote in March of 2025. .
In late September or early October 2025, Hesse was again reassigned, this time as "a screens critic for the Style section", according to her October 6 Post article and confirmed by her updated Post profile page,
Hesse is the author of several novels, with a focus on the World War II era. Her 2017 book American Fire reports on a string of arsons in Accomack County, Virginia.
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Monica Hesse
Monica Hesse (born 1981 or 1982) is an American journalist and author. She is the gender columnist for The Washington Post and a 2023 finalist for the Pulitzer Prize.
Hesse is from Normal, Illinois, where her father, Douglas D. Hesse, taught writing at Illinois State University. Her mother is a therapist.
She attended Bryn Mawr College, where she wrote a column for The Bi-College News and majored in English. She graduated in 2003. In 2009, she earned a master's degree in nonfiction writing from Johns Hopkins University.
During Hesse's junior year of college, she interned at AARP: The Magazine, an experience that led to a full-time job at the publication after she graduated. She moved to Washington, D.C. and began taking freelance assignments for The Washington Post and the tabloid On Tap.
In 2007, Hesse interned for the Post's Style section, later becoming a permanent feature writer. In 2018, she was appointed the newspaper's first ever gender columnist.
In January 2025, the Post scrapped the paper's "gender columnist" role and reassigned Hesse from the Style/"Power" section to the Opinions section after Post editors killed an article recently submitted by her.. This change was confirmed by Hesse herself in an article she wrote in March of 2025. .
In late September or early October 2025, Hesse was again reassigned, this time as "a screens critic for the Style section", according to her October 6 Post article and confirmed by her updated Post profile page,
Hesse is the author of several novels, with a focus on the World War II era. Her 2017 book American Fire reports on a string of arsons in Accomack County, Virginia.