Anna Louie Sussman

Anna Louie Sussman is a freelance journalist based in New York. A former staff reporter at Reuters and The Wall Street Journal, she now writes about gender, economics, and reproduction for publications including The New Yorker and The New York Times. As a fellow, she worked on Inconceivable: The Impossibility of Family in an Age of Uncertainty – A Journalist’s Global Investigation into the Forces Keeping People from the Families They Want, a book about the barriers people face in starting or growing their families, for Dey Street Books.

This bio reflects the fellow’s work and affiliations as of the completion of their fellowship project.

• The End of Babies: An article for The New York Times about why people are having fewer babies, even though many want to start families.
• The Promise and Perils of the New Fertility Entrepreneurs: A story about how entrepreneurs, backed by venture capital and private equity funds, are selling fertility for The New Yorker.
• When the Government Seizes Your Embryos: A The New Yorker article about the barriers facing Polish women who have frozen eggs through IVF but have been blocked by the government from accessing them.
• The Case for Redefining Fertility: An exploration of the ways in which unconventional families such as queer couples and single parents can be considered “socially infertile” and how to accommodate them for The New Yorker.
• Who Can Afford to Get Pregnant? IVF “Baby Scholarships” Raise a Class Issue: An article for The Guardian about the high price of reproductive technology in the United States and how it determines who gets to start a family.