Joshua Wolf Shenk

Joshua Wolf Shenk is a writer based in New York City. His essays and articles have appeared in The Atlantic Monthly, Time, Harper’s Magazine, The New Yorker, The New York Times, among others, and in the national bestseller Unholy Ghost: Writers on Depression, edited by Nell Casey. He is the author of the critically acclaimed Lincoln’s Melancholy: How Depression Challenged a President and Fueled His Greatness. Shenk teaches writing at the New School University and serves on the board of Stories at the Moth. He is a member of the advisory council to the Abraham Lincoln Bicentennial Commission and a contributing editor to The Washington Monthly. He is also a member of the advisory council to the Shul of New York. Shenk’s honors include a Rosalynn Carter fellow in mental health journalism at the Carter Center, the Frank Whiting scholarship at the Bread Loaf Writer’s Conference, and residencies at Yaddo, MacDowell, and the Blue Mountain Center. He is a 2005-06 fellow in non-fiction literature at the New York Foundation for the Arts.