Full Portfolio — VERA CAROTHERS

The New Yorker

The Euphoria of Cold-Water Immersion in “Swimming Through,” TNY Documentary Intro, 2023
Ladies, Start Your Engines!, Talk of the Town (in print), 2023
Reckoning with the Slave Ship Clotilda, Cultural Comment, 2022
The “Little Devils” Bucking Gender Inequality Through Softball, TNY Documentary Intro, 2022
What Exactly Does It Mean to Come Out?, TNY Documentary Intro, 2022
A Blind Skateboarder’s Return to the Ramp, TNY Documentary Intro, 2022
A Syrian Artist Remakes the Home He Cannot Visit, TNY Documentary Intro, 2021
“Rough Trade” by Katrina Carrasco, Briefly Noted, 2024
“Dykette” by Jenny Fran Davis, Briefly Noted, 2023
“The Black Period” by Hafizah Augustus Geter, Briefly Noted, 2022
“Brown Neon” by Raquel Gutiérrez, Briefly Noted, 2022
“Bitter Orange Tree” by Jokha Alharthi, Briefly Noted, 2022
“Read Until You Understand” by Farah Jasmine Griffin, Briefly Noted, 2021
“In the Forest of No Joy” by J.P. Daughton, Briefly Noted, 2021

Autostraddle

How Reading A Queer Latina Writer Helped Me Understand My Mother’s Story, personal essay, 2020

Columbia Journal

Finding the Angel in the Stone: An Interview with Melissa Febos, interview, 2020
Down to the Marrow: An Interview with Carmen Maria Machado, interview, 2019
Slow Burn: An Interview with Leslie Jamison, interview, 2019
Pain You Can’t Resist: An Interview with Emily Bernard, interview, 2019
Book Review: Normal People by Sally Rooney, book review, 2019
Something Tangible: An Interview with Emma Ramadan, interview, 2019

Family Ghosts Podcast

I reported, wrote and produced a three-part series called, “The Clotilda Legacy,” which was recommended by The New York Times:

WNYC Radio

I co-reported and produced the following stories from the five-part news series, "Puerto Rico: The Future of Debt”:

Story 1: The Bankruptcy Case That Could Make or Break Puerto Rico, 2018
Story 2: With Wall Street's Help, How Puerto Rico Maxed Out on Bonds, 2018
Story 4: Judge Charts New Waters in Puerto Rico Bankruptcy Case, 2018
Story 5: A Battle With Big Implications For How States Borrow, 2018

NPR’s Morning Edition

I was the StoryCorps facilitator for the following broadcast pieces:

She Was One of the First Black Teachers at Her School, but “There’s no color when you’re learning how to read”, 2023

NPR's Latino USA

I produced the following podcast episode, which was also aired on WNYC 93.9FM as part of a radio hour special:

Puerto Rico's Financial Storm, Part One, 2018

LensCulture

Office Romance: Loving Light at the New York Times Building, book review, 2015
Intimate Prisoners: A Call for Empathy in Photojournalism, interview, 2015
Encerrados: Latin American Prisons, book review, 2015
Historical Remembering: Looking Back at East Germany, book review, 2015
William Klein’s Brooklyn, book review, 2015

WAMU Radio

I reported and produced the following pieces:

and I contributed reporting to the following pieces:

National Public Radio/WAMU

I contributed reporting to the following pieces:

Coney Island History Project

I recorded and produced these interviews:

Slate Studios, UnCanned: By Campbell's

I was the lead producer on this 3-part documentary series:

Ep. 1: How Do We Feed a Growing Population?
Ep. 2: What is Food Tech and Can I Eat it?
Ep. 3: How Do We Make Quality Food Accessible to All?

StoryCorps, Local NPR Stations

I was the StoryCorps facilitator for the following broadcast pieces:

Prospect: an anthology of creative nonfiction

High Water Mark, essay, 2014