Joshua Jelly-Schapiro

 BIO
Joshua Jelly-Schapiro is a geographer and writer whose books include Daylight Come: Harry Belafonte and the World He Made; Names of New York: Discovering the City’s Past, Present, and Future Through Its Place-Names; and Island People: The Caribbean and the World. He was the co-creator, with Rebecca Solnit, of Nonstop Metropolis: A New York City Atlas, which in 2016 was awarded the Brendan Gill Prize from the Municipal Art Society. His work appears regularly in The New York Review of Books, The New Yorker, and The New York Times, among many other publications, and he is a fellow of the New York Institute for the Humanities. Jelly-Schapiro teaches journalism at New York University and is director of publishing at Pioneer Works in Brooklyn, where he hosts the popular Author Talks series and is coeditor in chief of Pioneer Works Broadcast.