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Monica Uszerowicz is a writer, photographer, and editor born in Brooklyn, raised in Fort Lauderdale, and based in Miami. Her last name is pronounced you-sir-of-itch, with a rolled “r.”

She writes about Florida history, Miami and its relationship to the Caribbean, films, video games, music, memories, feelings, and visual art, especially photography. Her writing has been published in Artforum, Art in America, The Believer, Bomb, Burnaway, Cultured, Deem Journal, Filmmaker Magazine, The Los Angeles Review of Books, The New York Review of Books, The Outline, and Pin-Up, among other places, and her photographs have been exhibited throughout the US and internationally. Previously, she was the Senior Editor at Cultured.

Uszerowicz is the recipient of a 2020 Andy Warhol Foundation Arts Writers Grant in the short-form category. Her project, Groundwater, is a (still ongoing) series of essays about artists from Florida or the Caribbean whose work addresses—or attempts to mitigate—instances of environmental injustice and the effects of the climate crisis.