Gloria Alamrew is an essayist and culture critic in New York City.
Award-nominated writer, Gloria Alamrew is a distinguished voice in contemporary cultural discourse, with her work appearing in Hazlitt, ESSENCE, Refinery29, Parents, YES! Magazine, CBC, InStyle, The Site Magazine, among others. Her criticism work has earned her invitations to cover the prestigious Sundance Film Festival and Tribeca Film Festival. Her essay, “What Does It Mean To Raise Free Black Children?” was part of Kindred's (Parents Magazine) 2024 Folio Award-winning package, The Black Joy Issue. Most recently, her essay published in Hazlitt, "What Does a Mother Sound Like?" was named a finalist in the 2025 National Magazine Awards Foundation's Digital Publishing Awards for "Best Personal Essay."She publishes the newsletter, Culture Craft where she excavates the rich terrain where motherhood, Blackness, design, and storytelling converge. She is also the co-host of The Makers Studio, a podcast dedicated to examining and archiving the craft and processes behind making art in the contemporary context. Launching early 2026.From her home in the Bronx, she continues redefining cultural criticism through the lens of Black motherhood in diaspora, exploring questions of belonging, legacy, and the homes we build, both literal and metaphysical.She is represented by Kima Jones (Triangle House Literary).
Selected writing.
Motherhood & ParentingHazlitt, What Does A Mother Sound Like?ESSENCE, Gentle Parenting — But Make It BlackESSENCE, The Science Backing One Mother’s Decision To Not Spank Her SonYES! Magazine, The Black Mothering Body, FortifiedRefinery29, My Traumatic First Birthing Experience Led Me To Embrace Honesty In Motherhood (As told to Gloria Alamrew)Parents, What Does It Mean To Raise Free Black Children?Parents, Gentle Parenting Is a Chance for Black Children, and Parents, To ThriveWell+Good, The Challenges of Breastfeeding As A Black MotherZORA, I Am My Mother’s KeeperArts & Culture ReportingRefinery29, Introducing Jay Will, Sundance’s Breakout Star Of Rob Peace (film review)Refinery29, Who is "The American Society Of Magical Negroes" For? (film review)Refinery29, Who Taught Us To Run From Grief? This Children’s Book Faces It Head On (book review)Refinery29, The New Janet Jackson Documentary Proves She’s Always Been In Control (film review)Refinery29, Virgil Abloh & Chadwick Boseman’s Deaths Remind Us That Black Artists Don’t Belong To UsInStyle, Where Would Fashion Be without André Leon Talley?CBC, Building Black Kinship: Black on the PrairiesZORA, This Authentic Ethiopian Dish Feeds Both Body and SoulAMA, Book Drive: Calgary Poet Bertrand Bickersteth (book review)CBC Arts, Writing our own history: In celebration of Black writers and the endurance of our storiesCBC Arts, Celebrating the joy of Edmonton's Black Arts MatterProfilesRefinery29, Scottie Beam & Sylvia Obell Got A Second Chance. They’re Making It Count.Refinery29, George M. Johnson: America Banned My Book, But I Refuse To Stay Silent (As told to Gloria Alamrew)Refinery29, “I Never Wanted To Be The First” — Weed Pioneer Vivianne Wilson On Canada’s Cannabis ProblemDesign & The Built WorldReimagine Magazine, A River Runs Through It: Kwanlin Dün First Nation's Kashgêk' Building is a Masterclass in Innovation, Sustainability, and StorytellingThe Site Magazine, Black Healing in the Digital SpaceReimagine Magazine, Staying Power: An abandoned power plant in Munich is transformed into a flagship furniture store.Reimagine Magazine, A Whole New Arena: Edmonton's Northlands resignifies itself as Agora Borealis.
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