Felicia Nimue Ackerman

Felicia Nimue Ackerman (born 1947) is an American author, poet, and philosopher and professor of philosophy at Brown University, as of 2020. She is a prolific writer of letters to the editor of "The New York Times."
Early life and education.
Ackerman was born in Providence, Rhode Island, in 1947.
She received her BA, "summa cum laude", from Cornell University in 1968, and earned her PhD from the University of Michigan in 1976. Regarding her first name, she writes "Felicia Nimue is a double first name like Mary Jane, and I'm called the whole thing".
Selected publications.
Her research interests center on the philosophy of literature, bioethics, and moral psychology:
According to "Oxford Handbooks Online Scholarly Research Review", "her short stories on bioethical themes have appeared in "Commentary", "Mid‐American Review", "Prize Stories 1990: The O. Henry Awards" (Doubleday, 1990), and "Clones and Clones: Facts and Fantasies About Human Cloning" (Norton, 1998)."
She has published fifteen short stories, including:
She writes a monthly op-ed column for "The Providence Journal."
Ackerman is also a frequent letter writer to "The New York Times", especially on subjects relating to the treatment of the elderly. Andrew Marantz of "The Atlantic" says letters editor Thomas Feyer named Ackerman the top contender as record holder for the most letters published, exceeding 200 letters since 1987. In a WNYC interview, Feyer also noted Ackerman writes as many as five letters to the editor per day.
Awards.
From January to June 1985, she served as Senior Fulbright Lecturer in Philosophy at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem.of The Atlantic
In 1988–89, she served as a Fellow at the Center for Advanced Study in the Behavioral Sciences.
In 1990, her short story, "The Forecasting Game: a story" was published in the annual "Prize Stories 1990" O. Henry Awards collection.