About

R.A.E. Wells (Rosalie Anna Elizabeth Wells) is a writer from London now based in Brooklyn, New York. She has published humor in The New Yorker and McSweeney’s Internet Tendency, cultural reporting in Park Slope Living, long-form writing in the policy journal Vital City, and personal essays in the UK zines Blueprint and Panopticon.

She currently works as an Adjunct Assistant Professor at the NYU Stern School of Business. Commerce and Culture is a Management Communication course which explores representations of business in novels, short stories, plays, and films, with a focus on developing first-year business students' essay writing and critical thinking skills.

Rosalie also works as a Professional Consultant at the Fashion Institute of Technology’s Writing and Public Speaking Studio, where she advises students on academic and professional writing and speaking projects, as well as mentoring graduate and undergraduate tutors. She previously worked as a Writing Tutor and Course Assistant at NYU (2022-2023).

Rosalie has 8+ years of experience in nonprofit communications and editorial roles. She worked most recently at the Center for Migration Studies of New York, an immigration policy think tank, and before that spent three years at The King's Trust (formerly The Prince's Trust), the UK's leading youth nonprofit. Her expertise includes ghostwriting op-eds, speeches, and policy statements for CEOs, politicians, grassroots activists, and a member of the British royal family.

She holds a BA in English Literature from the University of Oxford (2014-2017) and an MA in Media, Culture, and Communication from NYU (2022-2024). She received 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.

R.A.E. Wells / Rosalie Wells / Rosie Wells