Adam Iscoe is a writer and editor and producer based in New York.

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—and a new radio series. 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. He has recently moderated discussions, spoken on panels and delivered public lectures at venues such as the Brooklyn Public Library, the Harvard Club of New York and Columbia University’s Graduate School of Journalism. 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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512-745-9380 (cell, Signal)