Wen Stephenson Email & Phone Number

I’m a journalist, essayist, and activist, and I’m the author of "What We’re Fighting for Now Is Each Other: Dispatches From the Front Lines of Climate Justice" (Beacon, 2015), about my journey into the US climate movement during the pivotal years from 2010 to 2015. My next book, a series of essays on climate and politics titled "Learning to Live in the Dark," is coming in 2025. I contribute these days mostly to The Nation and The Baffler, and over the years, in addition to being a former senior-level editor at The Atlantic and The Boston Globe, I’ve written for many other publications, including The Atlantic, the Globe, Slate, The New York Times Book Review, The American Prospect, The Boston Phoenix, Grist, Los Angeles Review of Books, and the literary journal AGNI, among other places.In what now seems like a previous life, I took a leave of absence from the English PhD program at the University of Chicago in 1994 and somehow became an editor at The Atlantic, where I co-created TheAtlantic.com and served as its editorial director from 1996 to 2001, earning three National Magazine Award nominations for general excellence and helping invent a model of web-only magazine journalism still in use today. Later, after a tour of duty at PBS Frontline from 9/11 to the early Iraq War period, I became deputy editor and then editor of the Sunday Boston Globe Ideas section in its influential early years. I even dabbled in radio, when I was hired away to be the senior/managing producer of NPR’s On Point at WBUR in Boston.In 2010, after leaving WBUR (burnt to a crisp), I experienced something of a personal awakening and walked away from my mainstream media career in order to write and engage on climate and climate justice.

Listed skills include Editing.