Emily Witt

Emily Witt has been a staff writer at The New Yorker since 2018. She has covered breaking news and politics from around the country, and has written about culture, sexuality, drugs, and night life. She is the author of the books Future Sex and Nollywood. Her journalism, essays, and criticism have appeared in n+1, the Times, GQ, Harper’s, and the London Review of Books, and have been anthologized in The Best American Travel Writing 2011, Say What You Mean: the n+1 Anthology, and Meeting the Devil: A Book of Memoir from the London Review of Books.