About
Rosalie Anna Elizabeth Wells (R.A.E. Wells) is a writer from London now based in Brooklyn, New York. She has published humor in The New Yorker, long-form writing in the urban policy journal Vital City, and personal essays in the UK zines Blueprint and Panopticon.
Rosalie has worked in editorial and communication roles for the last decade at nonprofits, most recently at the Center for Migration Studies.
She holds a BA in English Literature from the University of Oxford and an MA in Media, Culture, and Communication from NYU. In 2024, she won the NYU Distinguished Thesis Award for her research into the trad wife online subculture.
Rosalie was shortlisted for the Foyle Young Poet Award. She was a finalist for Cambridge University’s Newnham College Virginia Woolf Essay Prize.