About Me
Clarissa Brooks is a freelance journalist, writer and cultural worker based in Atlanta, GA. She has over 10+ years of non-profit comms/narrative strategy experience and 5+newsroom editorial experience.
Brooks has had words appear in other publications such as New York Magazine, Rolling Stone, Pitchfork , Teen Vogue and NPR. She now serves as Strategic Partnerships editor at Reckon News and was a 2023 Forbes 30 under 30 listee in Media.
“I can only speak for myself. But what I write and how I write is done in order to save my own life. And I mean that literally. For me literature is a way of knowing that I am not hallucinating, that whatever I feel/know is.”
Barbara Christian