About

Vicki Valosik is a freelance writer, as well as an editorial director and faculty member at Georgetown University’s School of Foreign Service, where she teaches graduate-level writing courses. Her debut nonfiction book, Swimming Pretty: The Untold Story of Women in Water, was published in June 2024 by Liveright Publishing (an imprint at W.W. Norton) and received starred reviews from Kirkus and Bookpage. Swimming Pretty was also selected for NPR's Books We Love list for 2024 and named an Amazon Editor's Pick for best history books. Valosik's essays and reporting have appeared in The Atlantic, Smithsonian Magazine, Time, Slate, American Scholar, US News & World Report, Huffington Post, Washington Post Magazine, Philadelphia Inquirer, LitHub, and several literary journals and anthologies. She holds an M.A. in Nonfiction Writing from Johns Hopkins University and an M.A. in Sociology from the University of South Alabama. Valosik is also a competitive synchronized swimmer and has presented on the history of the sport as a keynote speaker at the 2017 International Sports and Leisure History Colloquium at Manchester Metropolitan University (UK), and at the 2019 Congress of the International Society for the History of Physical Education and Sport in Madrid.

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