[1] New's father was an engineer and computer scientist for the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration and her mother worked as a party planner.
She is the creator and host of the television show Poetry in America.
[4] In May 2023, the Wall Street Journal reported that a nonprofit linked to New had received more than $100,000 from Jeffrey Epstein.
[5] She had three daughters with her first husband, Fred David Levine, who died in 2013.
Before moving to Boston, Massachusetts, the family resided in Miami, Florida.