Alison Fensterstock

Alison Fensterstock is a DJ on WWOZ 90.7 FM and the editor of NPR Music's award-winning collection How Women Made Music: A Revolutionary History, published by Harper One in 2024. She's been a staff music critic for the Times-Picayune and Gambit Weekly in New Orleans and written about music and culture for other places including Pitchfork, Rolling Stone. the Oxford American, the Los Angeles Times and the New York Times. Her next book, a biography of New Orleans cartoonist Bunny Matthews, will be published by the Historic New Orleans Collection Press in 2026.