Joshua Jelly-Schapiro

Joshua Jelly-Schapiro is a geographer and writer whose work focuses on place, race, and how human difference is understood and acted upon. He is the author of Island People and co-edited Nonstop Metropolis with Rebecca Solnit. He teaches at NYU and contributes regularly to The New York Review of Books. He also serves as Director of Publishing at Pioneer Works, where he was a resident in 2018 and 2019, and he is the author of Daylight Come, a 2026 book about Harry Belafonte published by Penguin Press.