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.