Vera Carothers

Vera Carothers is a writer, journalist, and educator with roots in Argentina and the U.S. She is currently a senior fact-checker at The New Yorker, where she has also contributed writing about books, documentary films, race, and culture since 2021. Her reporting work has been featured on NPR’s Morning Edition, WNYC, Slate, and LatinoUSA. She wrote and produced a radio documentary entitled “The Clotilda Series,” which was recommended by The New York Times. She is the recipient of a 2024-2025 Fulbright U.S. Student Program award in Argentina for writing a collection of narrative nonfiction entitled “Performing Resistance: Essays on Art and Activism.” Teaching is one of her favorite things; she’s taught creative writing to Columbia undergrads, live storytelling to high schoolers and adults all over the city, and English to elementary schoolers in France. She holds a B.A. in Comparative Literature (French and English) from Brown University and an M.F.A. in Creative Nonfiction Writing from Columbia.