Doreen St. Félix

Félix (born 1992) is a Haitian-American writer. She is a staff writer for The New Yorker and was formerly editor-at-large for Lenny Letter, a newsletter from Lena Dunham and Jenni Konner.

St. Félix attended Brown University, where she edited the weekly newspaper, The College Hill Independent. She graduated in 2014.

St. Félix has written for The New York Times Magazine and Pitchfork, as well as serving as an editor for Lena Dunham and Jenni Konner's newsletter, Lenny Letter. St. Félix now writes for The New Yorker.

Critical reception and honors

St. Félix won a National Magazine Award in Columns and Commentary in 2019. She was a finalist in the same category in 2017 for her writing at MTV News. In 2016, Forbes Magazine named St. Félix to its 30 Under 30 list, citing her work on the Lenny Letter launch, with the newsletter reaching 400,000 subscribers in under six months. i-D called her "a guiding voice in the worlds of writing, art and activism." Brooklyn Magazine named St. Félix to its 2016 list of the "100 Most Influential People in Brooklyn Culture," calling her Pitchfork essay on Rihanna "definitive." The Huffington Post named the same essay to its list of "The Most Important Writing From People Of Color In 2015", NPR called it "excellent" and Paper Magazine described it as "the best damn thing ever written re. Rihanna."

Other projects

St. Félix co-hosted a podcast at MTV News with Ira Madison III called Speed Dial with Ira and Doreen, focused on music, pop culture, sex and race.

St. Félix lives in Brooklyn, New York.

Essays and reporting

• "Ratology". The Talk of the Town. Dept. of Experts. The New Yorker. 91 (37): 36, 38. November 23, 2015.
• "Hot messes : 'The Flight Attendant,' on HBO Max, and 'Bridgerton,' on Netflix". The Critics. On Television. The New Yorker. 96 (43): 84–85. January 4–11, 2021.
• "Fallout : 'NYC Epicenters 9/11 → 2021 1/2'". The Critics. On Television. The New Yorker. 97 (28): 78–79. September 13, 2021.
• "Terra nova : 'Reservation Dogs,' on FX on Hulu; 'Only Murders in the Building,' on Hulu". The Critics. On Television. The New Yorker. 97 (30): 88–89. September 27, 2021.

Columns from newyorker.com

• "Amnesty in Brooklyn". The New Yorker. July 27, 2015.
• "Trump's fixation on Haiti, and the abiding fear of black self-determination". The New Yorker. January 12, 2018.
• "The magical thinking of 'the Goop Lab'". The New Yorker. February 3, 2020.
• "The embarrassment of Democrats wearing kente-cloth stoles". On and Off the Avenue. The New Yorker. June 9, 2020.

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