Ben Mauk is a writer and filmmaker.
His writing appears in The New York Times Magazine, The New Yorker, Harper's, Granta, and the London Review of Books, among other publications. His first book, The Fugitive World, is forthcoming from Farrar, Straus and Giroux. Ben is an Emmy and Peabody award-winning journalist. His work has been anthologized three times in the Best American series and twice nominated for the National Magazine Award. His first documentary film, Reeducated, a collaboration with Sam Wolson, is part of "Inside Xinjiang's Prison State," an immersive V.R. and interactive feature on life inside a Chinese reeducation camp. The project received an Emmy Award and Peabody Award, both firsts for The New Yorker, and the film has screened at more than 30 festivals. His other honors include two Online Journalism Awards, a Deadline Club Award, jury prizes from SXSW and NewImages, the NYU Reporting Award, and the inaugural Jamal Khashoggi Award for Courageous Journalism. He is a National Fellow at New America and the recipient of a National Endowment for the Humanities Public Scholar award. He has also been a Fulbright Scholar, Poynter Fellow, and MacDowell Fellow. He is a graduate of the Iowa Writers' Workshop and is represented by Adam Eaglin of The Cheney Agency. Ben co-founded the Berlin Writers' Workshop and served as director from 2017 to 2024. In the fall of 2024, he will join the Department of English at Case Western Reserve University. He lives in Berlin, Germany. He writes an occasional newsletter. |