Destry Maria Sibley is a writer, producer, oral historian, and doctoral candidate in English at the CUNY Graduate Center.
She studies, teaches, and writes personal narrative to understand how the world is made––and how it might be made anew.
Destry has been honored with fellowships from Mellon/ACLS, the American Association of University Women, PEN/America, National Geographic, the U.S. Fulbright Program, the Women Writing Women’s Lives Seminar, and Humanities New York. Her feature-length piece on the Children of Morelia, a group of 500 child refugees of the Spanish Civil War, aired on The New Yorker Radio Hour after she won WNYC’s national podcast accelerator competition.
Destry has produced podcasts and other media for The New York Times, TED, WNYC, the Google News Lab, Panoply, Gimlet, Columbia University, and more. She currently produces Esther Perel’s podcast Where Should We Begin?
Destry holds an appointment as a teaching fellow at the City College of New York, where she leads seminars in literature and oral history.
She divides her time between New York City and Midcoast Maine.
Get in touch at destry.sibley@gmail.com.
