Eren Orbey is a contributing writer at The New Yorker. His subjects have included the author Joyce Maynard, the computer scientist David Malan, the Iowa caucuses, restorative justice, contemporary photography, and gymnastics. He is a graduate of Yale University and the University of Oxford, where he studied as a Rhodes Scholar.
At MacDowell, Orbey finished a long story for The New Yorker about postpartum psychotic disorders, maternal infanticide, and the legal difficulty of defining insanity. He also worked on his first book, a memoir about trauma, memory, and storytelling, to be published by Hogarth, an imprint of Random House.
