The New Yorker Creators & Guests

Mary Louise Kelly is a broadcaster, author, and co-host of All Things Considered Podcast on National Public Radio (NPR).

Alison Stewart is an American journalist and author. She is the host of WNYC: All of It.

Brian Lehrer is a radio talk show host on New York City's public radio station WNYC. His daily two-hour interview program is called The Brian Lehrer Show. He has been an anchor and reporter for NBC Radio Networks. He also hosts a weekly television show on CUNY TV.

Deborah Treisman is an author and editor. Currently, she is the Fiction Editor of The New Yorker, where she hosts "The New Yorker Fiction Podcast," and the edits the anthology "20 Under 40: Stories from The New Yorker."Previously, Treisman was the editor of the literary magazine Grand Street, and before that she worked at Harper's Bazaar.Treisman received her B.A. in Comparative literature from the University of California Berkeley.

Meghna Chakrabarti is a journalist and radio producer. She is the host of NPR's On Point, the former host of the WBUR news program Radio Boston and the Modern Love podcast. She is also the primary fill-in host for Here & Now, produced by WBUR and distributed nationally by NPR.

Daniel Alarcón is an author. He has been a distinguished visiting writer at Mills College and a visiting writer at California College of the Arts. Daniel is a founder and executive producer of Radio Ambulante, a Spanish language podcast.

Sherman Alexie is a Spokane-Coeur d'Alene-Native American novelist, short story writer, poet, and filmmaker. His writings draw on his experiences as an Indigenous American with ancestry from several tribes. He grew up on the Spokane Indian Reservation and now lives in Seattle, Washington.His best-known book is The Lone Ranger and Tonto Fistfight in Heaven (1993), a collection of short stories. It was adapted as the film Smoke Signals (1998), for which he also wrote the screenplay.His first novel, Reservation Blues, received a 1996 American Book Award.His first young adult novel, The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian (2007), is a semi-autobiographical novel that won the 2007 U.S. National Book Award for Young People's Literature and the Odyssey Award as best 2008 audiobook for young people (read by Alexie). His 2009 collection of short stories and poems, War Dances, won the 2010 PEN/Faulkner Award for Fiction.Alexie is the guest editor of the 2015 Best American Poetry.In 2018 he was accused of sexual harassment by multiple women.

Kevin Barry is a writer. He is the author of three collections of short stories and three novels.

Jonathan Alter is a liberal & progressive journalist, best-selling author, documentary filmmaker, and television producer.

Greg David is a contributor covering fiscal and economic issues for THE CITY.

Peter Beinart is a columnist, journalist, and political commentator.

Palestinian living in Haifa, Socialist, member of national leadership at Standing Together, the largest Arab-Jewish grassroots movement in Israel.

David Bezmozgis is a writer and filmmaker. Currently, he is the Creative Director of the Humber School for Writers.Bezmozgis's fiction has appeared in The New Yorker, Harper's and Zoetrope All-Story. His first book, the collection "Natasha and Other Stories," was published in 2004. He has published two collections and two novels. He has written and produced films, and produced a season of the television show "Orphan Black."David’s stories have appeared in numerous publications including The New Yorker, Harpers, Zoetrope All-Story, and The Walrus.His books have been nominated for the Scotiabank/Giller Prize, The Governor-General's Award, the Trillium Prize and won the Amazon.ca First Novel Award and the National Jewish Book Award.​In the summer of 2010, David was included in The New Yorker's 20 Under 40 issue, celebrating the twenty most promising fiction writers under the age of forty.​A graduate of the University of Southern California's School of Cinematic Arts, David's first feature film, Victoria Day, premiered in competition at the Sundance Film Festival in 2009. His second feature, was an adaptation of his story Natasha.

Rachel Cusk an author.Cusk's first novel, "Saving Agnes," was published in 1993. She has published twelve novels and several nonfiction books.

Kate Marvel is a climate scientist and science writer. She is an Associate Research Scientist at NASA Goddard Institute for Space Studies and Columbia Engineering's Department of Applied Physics & Mathematics. She also writes regularly for Scientific American in her column "Hot Planet."

Ben Lerner is an American poet, novelist, essayist, and critic. He has been a Fulbright Scholar, a finalist for the National Book Award, Howard Foundation fellow, Guggenheim fellow, and currently a MacArthur fellow.

Claire-Louise Bennett is an author. Bennet's fiction and essays have appeared in The White Review, The Stinging Fly, gorse, Harper's Magazine, Vogue Italia, Music & Literature, and The New York Times magazine. She also writes about art and is a frequent contributor to frieze. In addition she has written for Tate etc., Artforum, and a number of international exhibition catalogues.Bennett's first book, "Pond," was published in 2015 and was shortlisted for the Dylan Thomas Prize. Her second book, "Checkout 19," was published in 2021, and was shortlisted for the Goldsmiths Prize.In 2016, Bennett was writer-in-residence at Temple Bar Gallery & Studio.