Title:
Former Senior Writer
Education:
Columbia University — Graduate School of Journalism,
Trinity University
- Karen Valby is a former senior writer at Entertainment Weekly. She left EW in 2014.
- She joined EW in 2000.
- She is the author of the books Welcome to Utopia: Notes From a Small Town (2010) and The Swans of Harlem: Five Black Ballerinas, Fifty Years of Sisterhood, and Their Reclamation of a Groundbreaking History (2024).
Experience
Karen Valby worked at Entertainment Weekly as a senior writer. She joined EW in 2000 and left in 2014.
She is the writer of the nonfiction books Welcome to Utopia: Notes From a Small Town in 2010 and The Swans of Harlem: Five Black Ballerinas, Fifty Years of Sisterhood, and Their Reclamation of a Groundbreaking History in 2024.
About Entertainment Weekly
Entertainment Weekly, a Dotdash Meredith brand, is an award-winning entertainment news organization launched in 1990 with the aim to delight and inform with smart and funny content that leaves the reader as the most knowledgable pop culture fanatic in the room. Want to know more about us? There's a link for that.
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