Hillary Brenhouse

Hillary Brenhouse is a Montreal-born writer focused on women’s health and broken capitalism. Her work has appeared in The New Yorker online, TIME, the Daily Beast, the New York Times, the International Herald Tribune, The Oxford American, Slate, and on PRI’s “The World,” among others.

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Interview Lit World

Elissa Washuta: “Living inside this empire is all that I will ever have.”

By Hillary Brenhouse April 28, 2021

The essayist on her new book, White Magic, and turning obsession into research.

Interview Gender Justice USA

Emma Eisenberg: Holding Contradiction

By Hillary Brenhouse February 21, 2020

The author of The Third Rainbow Girl on internalizing shame, creating healing, and scrambling gender in a place where “the earth loves you and also wants to kill you.”

Interview Bodies & Nature Gender Health

Porochista Khakpour: Bodily Chaos

By Hillary Brenhouse June 13, 2018

The author on her new memoir, SICK; searching for home; and her struggle to be heard by the medical establishment.

Class in America: The Fault Lines Interview Class Race USA

Cristina Ibarra: Going Through Customs

By Hillary Brenhouse June 16, 2014

The Chicana filmmaker on documenting a debutante ball in honor of George Washington’s birthday in Laredo, Texas, and adopting the Mexican-American border as her "muse.”