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Erin Aubry Kaplan
Born (1962-01-06) January 6, 1962 (age 62)
Los Angeles, California, U.S.
OccupationJournalist
EducationUniversity of California, Los Angeles (MFA)
SpouseAlan Kaplan
(b. 8/9/1955, d. 8/29/2015)

Erin Aubry Kaplan (born January 6, 1962) is a Los Angeles journalist and columnist who has written about black political, economic and cultural issues since 1992. She is a contributing writer to the op-ed section of the Los Angeles Times, and from 2005 to 2007 was a weekly op-ed columnist – the first black weekly op-ed columnist in the paper's recent history. She has been a staff writer and columnist for the LA Weekly and a regular contributor for many publications, including Salon.com, Essence, and Ms. Kaplan is also a regular columnist for make/shift, a quarterly feminist magazine that launched in 2007 and a contributing opinion writer for The New York Times.

Kaplan's essays have been anthologized in several books, including (as Erin Aubry) "Mothers Who Think: Tales of Real-Life Parenthood" (Villard, Washington Square Press), "Step Into A World" (Wiley & Sons) and "Rise Up Singing: Black Women Writers on Motherhood" (Doubleday). The last book's contributors include Maya Angelou, Gwendolyn Brooks and Alice Walker, and won an American Book Award in 2005. She won the PEN USA 2001 award for journalism.

Kaplan has published two books. Her first book was a collection of essays and reportage titled Black Talk, Blue Thoughts and Walking the Color Line: Dispaches From a Black Journalista, and was published in 2011. Her second, I Heart Obama, an extended essay about the cultural and personal meaning of the first black American president, was published in 2016.

Kaplan was born and raised in Los Angeles, though her family is originally from New Orleans. She married Alan Kaplan, a Los Angeles high school history teacher. He died in 2015. Kaplan holds an MFA from University of California, Los Angeles, and teaches creative writing at Antioch University Los Angeles.

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  1. 🖉Kaplan, Erin Aubry (May 24, 2018). "Opinion | Mourning My White Husband in the Age of Trump". The New York Times – via NYTimes.com.
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  4. ^ "Erin Aubry Kaplan - Antioch University Los Angeles | Antioch University Los Angeles". Antiochla.edu. 2012-12-21. Retrieved 2017-12-19.
  5. "The dehumanizing disregard I experienced at University of Redlands shows real equality has a ways to go". LA Times. 2015-11-29. Retrieved 2017-12-19.
  6. "Can Inglewood survive the NFL and gentrification?". LA Times. 2015-01-12. Retrieved 2017-12-19.
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  10. Therese Neis (July 2012). Extraordinary African-American Poets. Enslow Publishing, LLC. ISBN 9781598451399.
  11. "Holly's Heart". Essence.com. 2009-12-16. Retrieved 2017-12-19.
  13. "Lives on the Line | winter 2009". Ms. Retrieved 2017-12-19.
  14. "Ms. Magazine Online | Spring 2013". Ms. Retrieved 2017-12-19.
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  16. "Ms. Magazine Online | Spring 2015". Ms. Retrieved 2017-12-19.
  17. "make/shift". Makeshiftmag.com. Retrieved 2017-12-19.
  18. Kaplan, Erin Aubry (November 2018). "Opinion | My Love Affair With AM Radio". The New York Times. Retrieved 2018-11-02.
  19. Camille Peri; Kate Moses (7 August 2013). Mothers Who Think: Tales of Real-Life Parenthood. Random House Publishing. ISBN 9780804151924.
  20. Kevin Powell. "Step into a World: A Global Anthology of the New Black Literature". Aalbc.com. Retrieved 2017-12-19.
  21. Cecelie Berry, ed. (4 February 2009). Rise Up Singing: Black Women Writers on Motherhood. Crown. ISBN 9780307490193.
  22. "American Book Awards 2005" (PDF). Ankn.uaf.edu. Retrieved 2017-12-19.
  23. "Winners". PEN Center USA. Archived from the original on 2016-10-13. Retrieved 2017-12-19.
  24. Black Talk, Blue Thoughts, and Walking the Color Line: Erin Aubry Kaplan. Northern University Press. 2011. p. 304. ISBN 978-1-55553-766-1. Archived from the original on 2016-02-05. Retrieved 2016-02-04.
  25. Hector Tobar (2011-11-12). "'Black Talk, Blue Thoughts, and Walking the Color Line' review". Los Angeles Times. Retrieved 2017-12-19.
  26. Erin Aubry Kaplan (2016). I Heart Obama. University Press of New England. p. 240. ISBN 978-1-61168-536-7.
  27. "Love Across the Color Line: Remembering Alan Kaplan". KCET.org. 2015-09-09. Retrieved 2017-12-19.
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