Lylah M. Alphonse (born 1972, Princeton, New Jersey) is an American journalist. Her mother is a Parsi from India and her father is from Haiti. The eldest of three children, Alphonse attended Princeton Day School.
A graduate of the S.I. Newhouse School of Public Communications at Syracuse University, she was recently inducted to the Newhouse School's alumni hall of fame.
She works as an editor at The Boston Globe newspaper in Boston, Massachusetts where she is a member of the newspaper's Sunday magazine staff.[1] She also writes frequently for their Travel,[2] Food,[3] and Living/Arts[4] sections. She is consulting editor for the Fezana Journal,[5] Managing Editor at Work It, Mom!,[6] and the author of Triumph Over Discrimination: The Life Story of Farhang Mehr (ISBN 0-9709937-0-6).[7]
She writes for the Work + Money section of Shine on Yahoo!,[8] blogs about juggling career and parenthood on The 36-Hour Day blog,[9] and has contributed articles to Our Times, 5th edition (Bedford Books, 1998) and Interactions: A Thematic Reader (Houghton Mifflin Co., 1999), a textbook. A collection of her recent work on the blog Write. Edit. Repeat.[10]