Ben Mauk
Writer & filmmaker
Ben Mauk is a writer and filmmaker based in Berlin. His first book, “The Fugitive World”, is forthcoming from Farrar, Straus and Giroux.
His essays and reporting appear in The New York Times Magazine, The New Yorker, Harper’s, Granta, and the London Review of Books, among other publications. His fiction appears in American Short Fiction and The Sun. He is the founding director of the Berlin Writers’ Workshop and a contributing editor at The Dial.
Ben is an Emmy and Peabody award-winning journalist. His first documentary film, Reeducated, a collaboration with Sam Wolson, is part of “Inside Xinjiang’s Prison State,” an immersive VR and interactive feature on life inside a Chinese reeducation camp. The project won The New Yorker its first-ever Emmy and Peabody awards 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. His work has been anthologized three times in the Best American series and twice nominated for the National Magazine Award.
He is a 2024 National Fellow at New America and the recipient of a 2024 National Endowment for the Humanities Public Scholar award. He has also been a Fulbright Scholar, Poynter Fellow, MacDowell Fellow, and Monson Arts resident.
Website:
www.ben-mauk.com
Publications:
www.ben-mauk.com/writing