Hope Reese
Hope Reese is an American journalist and nonfiction author based in Budapest, Hungary.[1] She is the author of The Women Are Not Fine: The Dark History of a Poisonous Sisterhood (2025), published by Brazen Books, an imprint of Hachette UK,[2] and a featured author in Where Freedom Starts: Sex Power Violence #MeToo, published by Verso Books in 2018.[3][4][5]
Early life and education
[edit]Reese grew up in Southampton, New York.[1] She studied psychology at Bowdoin College and earned a Master of Liberal Arts in journalism from Harvard Extension School.[1]
Career
[edit]Reese has contributed to publications including The New York Times, The Atlantic, Vox, The Boston Globe, and the Chicago Tribune.[1] From 2015 to 2017, she was a staff writer at TechRepublic.[6][7] In 2016, her article using artificial intelligence to predict the Kentucky Derby superfecta attracted coverage from Newsweek, CBS News, and ESPN.[6][7][8]
The Women Are Not Fine
[edit]The Women Are Not Fine examines a series of early 20th-century arsenic poisonings in rural Hungary, known as the "angel makers of Nagyrév" case, in which a midwife distributed poison to local women who killed their husbands.[2] The book was reviewed by The Telegraph, the Literary Review, and Könyves Magazin.[9][10][11] Foyles listed it among its Top 10 Reads for July 2025.[12] The book was featured on BBC Radio 4's Woman's Hour, The Irish Times Women's Podcast, and ABC Radio National's Nightlife, where Reese discussed the case and her research.[13][14][15]
References
[edit]- 1 2 3 4 "Where Are They Now: Journalist Hope Reese Digs Into a Poisonous Sisterhood in New Book". 27east. 2025-07-13.
- 1 2 "Brazen acquires 'bitingly feminist' true crime book from Reese". The Bookseller.
- ↑ "Where Freedom Starts". Verso Books.
- ↑ Onwuemezi, Natasha (March 6, 2018). "Verso releases free #MeToo e-book". The Bookseller.
- ↑ McLemee, Scott (March 1, 2018). "A Long View of Me Too". Inside Higher Ed.
- 1 2 Purdum, David (January 14, 2017). "A.I. platform that nailed Derby tabs Green Bay for Super Bowl win". ESPN.com.
- 1 2 "Artificial intelligence: Key to Kentucky Derby betting?". CBS News. May 10, 2016.
- ↑ "Artificial Intelligence Turns $20 Into $11,000 in Kentucky Derby Bet". Newsweek.
- ↑ "Natasha Cooper - July 2025 Crime Round-up". Literary Review. February 2, 2026.
- ↑ Moller, Violet (July 7, 2025). "The Hungarian women who poisoned 101 villagers – including their husbands". The Telegraph. ISSN 0307-1235.
- ↑ "Meg lehet érteni a férjgyilkos magyar nőket? Amerikai szerző írt a tiszazugi asszonyokról". Könyves magazin (in Hungarian). July 8, 2025.
- ↑ "The Women Are Not Fine by Hope Reese | Foyles". www.foyles.co.uk.
- ↑ "Woman's Hour". Woman's Hour. 2025. BBC Radio 4.
- ↑ "The angel-makers of Nagyrév: the story of the village where women poisoned their husbands". The Irish Times. August 25, 2025.
- ↑ "Nightlife". Nightlife. 2025. ABC Radio National.
External links
[edit]- American women journalists
- Living people
- Bowdoin College alumni
- Harvard Extension School alumni
- American expatriates in Hungary
- People from Southampton (town), New York
- American freelance journalists
- Technology journalists
- Feminist writers
- Journalists from Budapest
- Hungarian women non-fiction writers
- Writers from Southampton
- Mass media people from Southampton