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,” “Nollywood: The Making of a Film Empire,” and “Health and Safety,” which won the Los Angeles Times-Christopher Isherwood Prize for Autobiographical prose. She has reported from many countries and was a Fulbright scholar in Mozambique.
