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​Ben Mauk is a writer and documentary filmmaker. He lives in Berlin.

He writes for The New York Times Magazine, The New Yorker, Harper's, the London Review of Books, Granta, and Virginia Quarterly Review​, among other publications. He is writing a book for Farrar, Straus and Giroux.

He co-founded and directs the Berlin Writers' Workshop and is an editor at The Dial, an online magazine of culture, politics, and ideas with a focus on locally sourced writing from around the world. He is part of the Periplus mentorship collective.

His story for Virginia Quarterly Review about a year in the life of a German asylum town was a National Magazine Award finalist for feature writing. His oral history of mass internment in China was a finalist for best illustrated story. His dispatches from Cambodia and Kazakhstan are anthologized in the Best American Travel Writing series.

His first film, Reeducated, a collaboration with the filmmaker Sam Wolson and The New Yorker, is an immersive V.R. documentary on life inside a Chinese reeducation camp. Reeducated won the Emmy Award for Outstanding Interactive Media. For his coverage of the persecution of minorities in Xinjiang, China, Ben has also won two Online Journalism Awards, a Deadline Club Award from the Society of Professional Journalists, the Reporting Award from NYU, jury prizes from SXSW and NewImages, and the inaugural Jamal Khashoggi Award for Courageous Journalism. 
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He is a graduate of the Iowa Writers' Workshop and has been a Fulbright Scholar, Poynter Fellow at Yale, MacDowell Fellow, NYU visiting scholar, and frequent Pulitzer Center grantee.​ He is represented by Adam Eaglin of The Cheney Agency.

​He writes an occasional newsletter.