Reggie Ugwu is a narrative nonfiction writer from Houston, now living in Brooklyn. As a staff writer for The New York Times, his work reveals how artists live, think, and create the work that shapes culture and influences society. Ugwu is a recipient of a Whiting Creative Nonfiction Grant (2023), has been anthologized in Best American Travel Writing, and earned a degree in journalism from The University of Texas at Austin.
His first book, Brilliance Is All We Have: Black Filmmakers and the Fight For the Soul of America, is a character-driven history of Black filmmaking and Black self-determination in American cinema. He wrote and did reporting on the manuscript at MacDowell.
