About

Awards, Fellowships, etc.

Ben Mauk is a writer, journalist, 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.

A graduate of the Iowa Writers' Workshop, Ben co-founded the Berlin Writers' Workshop and served as director from 2017 to 2024. In 2024 he joined Case Western Reserve University, where he is Shirley Wormser Professor of Journalism and Media Writing.

He lives in Berlin, Germany and Cleveland, Ohio.

Ben is an Emmy and Peabody award-winning journalist. His writing has been anthologized three times in the Best American series and twice nominated for the National Magazine Award. He is a former New America fellow, NEH Public Scholar, Poynter fellow, MacDowell fellow, and Fulbright scholar.

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 grantee of the Pulitzer Center, de Groot Foundation, Eyebeam Center, Online News Association, and Matthew Power Literary Reporting Award.

His first documentary film, Reeducated, 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 has screened at more than 30 festivals.

He is represented by Adam Eaglin of The Cheney Agency.