Angela Brussel is a writer, editor, and photographer based between Beirut and Los Angeles with non-fiction and fiction that have appeared in Los Angeles Review of Books, New Statesman, Literary Hub, Catapult, Electric Literature, Nylon, The Awl, Al Hayya, The Wrong Quarterly, Brooklyn Magazine, KCET's Migrant Kitchen, amongst others. Current interests range from nihilism and the neuroscience of addiction to the psychology behind conspiracy theories and persecution.
She is the founder of Nour Jan Presents, a multi-media research platform, pop-up, and experimental collective focused on elevating diasporic bodies and hyphenated identities through food, storytelling, film, and art. Nour Jan Presents’ podcast “This Diaspora Life”, which uses oral histories and archival music to do ethnographic deep dives into different diaspora communities around the world from Buenos Aires to Beirut, was funded by Gulbenkian Foundation and Goethe Institute.
This past winter, Angela was Villa Aurora’s distinguished writer in residence where she worked on final edits for her first novel. She received her MA in Writing and Teaching from Goldsmiths, University of London and her BA in Art History from UCLA. She is also a contributing editor at Rusted Radishes: Beirut’s Art and Literary Journal.
angelarosebrussel@gmail.com