Cora Lewis is a writer and reporter whose debut novel, Information Age, was published in July 2025. Lewis currently works at the Associated Press in New York City covering financial and economic news. She’s written on student debt, inequality, cryptocurrency, and financial scams, among other topics, such as inflation and the Federal Reserve. Prior to this role, Cora worked at BuzzFeed News, where she covered labor, politics, and breaking news, as well as at The New Haven Independent, The Wall Street Journal, The New York Observer, and elsewhere. Her nonfiction has led to an episode of This American Life and been honored with a Newswomen’s Club of New York Front Page Award. Following her reporting on sexual harassment, the CEO of a progressive media outlet stepped down, and she has broken news on major companies including Walmart, Amazon, and Google.
Cora received her BA in Philosophy from Yale University and MFA from Washington University in St. Louis, where she also worked at Dorothy, a Publishing Project. Her fiction has appeared or is forthcoming in The Yale Review, Joyland MagazineCream City Review, Juked, Reed Magazine, GASHER Journal, Epiphany, Mikrokosmos Journal, TINGE magazine, The Racket Journal, SORTES, The Saranac Review, and elsewhere. In 2021, she received the Carrie Scott Galt Writer’s Award from the Wednesday Club of St. Louis, and in 2022, Hypertext magazine nominated her story for a Pushcart Prize.