McKenzie Funk writes for Harper’s, National Geographic, Rolling Stone, Outside, The New York Times Magazine, and the London Review of Books. His first book, Windfall, won a PEN Literary Award, was shortlisted for the Orion and Rachel Carson awards, and was named a book of the year by The New Yorker, Mother Jones, Salon, and Amazon.com. A National Magazine Award and Livingston Award finalist and former Knight-Wallace Fellow, Mac won the Oakes Prize for Environmental Journalism for his reporting on the melting Arctic and a fellowship at the Open Society Foundations for his forthcoming work on data and privacy. He is a cofounder of the journalism cooperative Deca, a founding board member at the arts nonprofit Amplifier, and a former story consultant at the Center for Investigative Reporting.
At MacDowell, he worked on a nonfiction book, a history of data and data brokers in the United States. Early reporting from the project was published in The New York Times Magazine. Mac speaks five languages and is a native of the Pacific Northwest, where he lives with his wife and sons.
