2025 Recipients
Mark Chiusano
Mark Chiusano is a journalist and the author of The Fabulist: The Lying, Hustling, Grifting, Stealing, and Very American Legend of George Santos, and the story collection Marine Park, a PEN/Hemingway honorable mention. His fiction and nonfiction appears in places like New York Magazine, Politico Magazine, TIME, The Drift, The Paris Review, McSweeney’s, and The Iowa Review, and he is a founder of the fiction Substack, Works Progress. He teaches English at CUNY City Tech and is a senior fellow at New York Law School’s Center for New York City and State Law. He received a 2025 Silvers Grant for his forthcoming book, Gigging Alone: A Year in America’s Shadow Economy.
Akemi Johnson
Akemi Johnson is the author of Night in the American Village: Women in the Shadow of the U.S. Military Bases in Okinawa. Her work has appeared in The New York Times, The Washington Post, The Nation, and NPR’s Code Switch. She received a 2025 Silvers Grant for her second book, to be published by One Signal/Simon & Schuster, about the WWII incarceration of Japanese Americans and Tule Lake concentration camp, where her grandfather renounced his U.S. citizenship, along with more than 5,000 others. She lives in Northern California.
Kristen V. Brown
Kristen V. Brown is a health and science journalist whose work has chronicled the rise of consumer DNA testing, DIY gene hacking, a pandemic and her own journey through the troubled US fertility industry. Her 2021 podcast series for Bloomberg, Doubt, won a Signal award for its exploration of the roots of the vaccine hesitancy movement in America. She received a 2025 Silvers Grant for her first book, the forthcoming The Immortal Womb: The centuries-long scientific quest to control the female body — and hack human reproduction (WW Norton).
Caitlín Doherty
Caitlín Doherty is a writer of narrative non-fiction, specialising in stories of economic turbulence and elite excess. She has written on a range of topics, from contemporary art and cinema to feminism and theories of capitalism for publications including Harper’s Magazine, the New Statesman, Jacobin, Film Comment, and New Left Review, where she is a member of the Editorial Committee. She received a 2025 Silvers Grant for her history of globalization, told from the vantage point of the Swiss town of Davos, to be published by One Signal and Faber & Faber.
Kevin Ochieng Okoth
Kevin Ochieng Okoth is a writer based in London. He is the author of Red Africa: Reclaiming Revolutionary Black Politics (Verso, 2023) and a regular contributor to the London Review of Books. He received a 2025 Silvers Grant for a series of essays on Tom Mboya and Kenya’s Cold War, to be published in the London Review of Books.
Sasha Archibald
Sasha Archibald’s writing has appeared in 4Columns, The New Yorker, Places Journal, Los Angeles Review of Books, The Point, White Review, and The Believer, and in books published by the Academy Museum of Motion Pictures, Walker Art Center, Whitechapel Gallery, and other institutions. She is an associate editor at Places Journal, and a contributing editor to The Public Domain Review. She received a 2025 Silvers Grant for her forthcoming biography of gay liberationist Carl Wittman, to be published by Yale University Press.
Billy McEntee
Billy McEntee is Theater Editor at The Brooklyn Rail where he writes monthly essays on new plays with shorter runs. He was the American Theatre Critics Association’s inaugural Helbing Fellow, and his co-created play The Voices in Your Head was a 2025 Drama Desk Award nominee for Unique Theatrical Experience. He received a 2025 Silvers Grant for his forthcoming article, “From Spotlight to Moonlight: How Local Actors Moved from Full- to Part-Time Fixtures of Regional Theater.”
Anjan Sundaram
Anjan Sundaram is the author of the award-winning memoirs Stringer, Bad News, and Breakup. Dubbed “one of the great reporters of our age” by BBC foreign correspondent Fergal Keane, his books have been featured by Christiane Amanpour, Fareed Zakaria, and Jon Stewart. He writes regularly for The New York Review of Books and Granta magazine. He graduated from Yale University with degrees in mathematics and holds a PhD in journalism from the University of East Anglia. He received a 2025 Silvers Grant for his forthcoming book, Double Exposure: Two Reporters in the Climate War
Justin Slaughter
Justin Slaughter is a journalist and cultural critic. His essays have appeared in Bookforum, Guernica, Jacobin, and elsewhere. He received a 2025 Silvers Grant for his first book, C.L.R. James In America, forthcoming from Haymarket Books. He lives in Brooklyn.
Julia Kornberg
Julia Kornberg is a writer from Buenos Aires and the author of the novel Berlin Atomized. She has contributed to The New York Review of Books, The Paris Review, Poetry Magazine, and The Drift, among others. She is currently a Ph.D. candidate in the Spanish and Portuguese Department at Princeton University. She shares her 2025 Silvers Grant with Federico Perelmuter for the forthcoming feature, “Argentina’s Football Wars,” to be published in Equator.
Federico Perelmuter
Federico Perelmuter is a writer from Buenos Aires. He has written for the Los Angeles Review of Books, The Baffler, New Left Review and Parapraxis among others. He is a contributing writer at Southwest Review. He shares his 2025 Silvers Grant with Julia Kornberg for the forthcoming feature, “Argentina’s Footballs Wars,” to be published in Equator.
Esmé E. Deprez
Esmé E. Deprez spent 14 years at Bloomberg News and Bloomberg Businessweek, most recently as a senior reporter on the investigations team and before that a national breaking news and feature correspondent covering state and federal politics and policy. Her work has been a finalist for the National Magazine Awards and Livingston Awards, and earned recognition from the Nieman Foundation, National Press Club, and Newswomen’s Club of New York, among others. She and her family split time between California and her home state of Maine. She received a 2025 Silvers Grant for her first book, Inviting Death In: How I Helped My Dad Die and the Fight to Control Life’s End,to be published by Atria / Simon & Schuster.
Jonathan M. Katz
Jonathan Myerson Katz is a journalist known for his writing, reporting and analysis of politics, history, conflict, international affairs, and disaster. He is the author of The Big Truck That Went By: How the World Came to Save Haiti and Left Behind a Disaster, which was a finalist for the PEN/John Kenneth Galbraith Award for Nonfiction and won the Overseas Press Club Cornelius Ryan Award for the year’s best book on international affairs, and Gangsters of Capitalism: Smedley Butler, the Marines, and the Making and Breaking of America’s Empire. He contributes to a variety of publications and publishes a widely read newsletter, The Racket, at theracket.news. He received a 2025 Silvers Grant for his forthcoming book, The Legend of Skokie.
S.C. Cornell
S. C. Cornell is a writer in Mexico City. Her writing has appeared in the New Yorker, the New York Review of Books, and The Drift, among others outlets. She received a Silvers Grant for her forthcoming book, The Migrant and the Murderer (Penguin Press.)
Robert Flummerfelt
Robert Flummerfelt is an award-winning investigative journalist and documentary filmmaker. He was based in the eastern Democratic Republic of the Congo for six years, and has conducted investigative reporting throughout East and Central Africa, the Middle East, and Europe. He has reported for The Guardian, Al Jazeera English, and The Intercept, among others. He received a 2025 Silvers Grant for his forthcoming book, Unpeopled: Settler Colonialism, Fascism, and the Ecological Crisis.
Sam Cowie
Sam Cowie is a British journalist and writer based in São Paulo, Brazil since 2015. He specializes in long-form and investigative journalism, and his work has been published by the Associated Press, Bloomberg, Financial Times, The Guardian, BBC, Al Jazeera, Telegraph Magazine, Mongabay, and Brazilian outlets such as Repórter Brasil, Folha de S. Paulo, BBC Brasil, UOL, and Valor Econômico. His reporting often examines the intersection of environment, crime, power, and politics. In 2024, he won both the Vladimir Herzog Award and the Gabo Journalism Award as part of the team behind Amazon Underworld, a project that investigates the links between drug trafficking and environmental crimes in the Amazon. He received a 2025 Silvers Grant for Jute Farm: Life, Death, and Hope on the Edge of an American Metropolis.
Noah Rawlings
Noah Rawlings is a writer and translator from North Carolina. He received a 2025 Silvers Grant for his forthcoming feature, “Promised Land: Mormonism and Agricultural Expansionism,” to be published in Harper’s Magazine.
Erin Siegal McIntyre
Erin Siegal McIntyre is a writer, photographer, and reluctant transplant to the American South. Before joining the faculty at UNC Chapel Hill, she lived and worked on the border in Tijuana, Mexico for a decade. Her award-winning first book, Finding Fernanda (Beacon Press 2012) served as the basis for an hour-long CBS special investigation that won an Emmy. Erin’s work has been supported by the Fund for Investigative Journalism, the Harnisch Foundation, the International Women’s Media Foundation, and more. She holds degrees from Columbia University and Parsons School of Design in New York. She received a 2025 Silvers Grant for her forthcoming book, Behind the Green Line.
Leo Robson
Leo Robson is an assistant editor at Literary Review and contributing editor at Granta. His writing has appeared in the New York Review of Books, the London Review of Books, the New Left Review, Bookforum, the New Yorker, among other publications. His first novel, The Boys, was published in the UK in May. He received a 2025 Silvers Grant for his forthcoming essay on Marxist literary criticism in Britain, to be published in the New Left Review.
Dennis Zhou
Dennis Zhou is the Senior Editor at The Paris Review and a writer based in New York. His work has appeared in The New Yorker, The New York Review of Books, The Nation, and other publications. He received a 2025 Silvers Grant for a piece on the Chinese filmmaker Bi Gan and the making of his film Resurrection, to be published in The New Yorker.
Miriam Berger
Miriam Berger is a reporter with the Washington Post covering the war in Gaza. She received a 2025 Silvers Grant for her forthcoming book, Hunger by Design: The Food Politics of the Gaza War.