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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 (US) and Granta Books (UK).

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. He was a 2024 National Fellow at New America, a 2023-24 National Endowment for the Humanities Public Scholar awardee, a 2022 Poynter Fellow, and a 2014-15 Fulbright Scholar. He is also a frequent Pulitzer Center grantee and a two-time MacDowell Fellow.

His other honors include two Online Journalism Awards, a Deadline Club Award, jury prizes from SXSW and NewImages, the NYU Reporting Award, two citations from the Overseas Press Club, and the inaugural Jamal Khashoggi Award for Courageous Journalism.  

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 the film has screened at more than 30 festivals.

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 is represented by Adam Eaglin of The Cheney Agency. He lives in Berlin, Germany and Cleveland, Ohio.

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