Adam Iscoe, who began contributing to The New Yorker in 2021, has written about mental illness, contemporary art and film, private aviation, Afghanistan, climate change, mass incarceration, cryptocurrency, boats, corporate malfeasance, guns, cannabis, restaurants, and politics.

Iscoe is also producer at Theater of War Productions, where he is working with leading film, theater and television actors to present live, dramatic performances of long form journalism. Previously, Iscoe worked as a Visiting Scholar at the University of California, Berkeley; a journalism instructor at Solano State Prison, in Vacaville, California; and as an editor at San Quentin News, the award-winning newspaper produced by incarcerated journalists at San Quentin State Prison. In 2024, Iscoe received the Carey McWilliams Award.

His writing has also appeared in Harper’s Magazine, Texas Monthly and McSweeney’s Quarterly Concern.

Iscoe is an Eagle Scout. He is from Texas.

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