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Joshua Wolf Shenk is an author, essayist, and storyteller based in New York City. His work has appeared in Harper's Magazine; The Atlantic Monthly; The New Yorker; Time Magazine; the national bestseller Unholy Ghost: Writers on Depression, edited by Nell Casey; GQ; The Washington Post; The Nation; The New York Times; Mother Jones; and other publications. He is a former editor of The Washington Monthly and has been a correspondent for The New Republic, The Economist, and U.S. News & World Report. Shenk's fiction and miscellany have appeared on public radio's The Next Big Thing and ReallySmallTalk.Com. In the spring of 2004, he made his stand-up debut at The Comic Strip in New York City. He is vice-chairman of the board of directors of Stories at the Moth, the urban storytelling series, and has appeared in three shows. Shenk is a 2005 fellow at the New York Foundation for the Arts in non-fiction literature. He has been a Rosalynn Carter Fellow in Mental Health Journalism at the Carter Center, a Frank Whiting Scholar at the Bread Loaf Writer's Conference, and a DeWitt Wallace/Reader’s Digest Fellow at the MacDowell Colony. His essay "The Things We Carry" was a Notable Essay in Best American Essays 2002. Shenk teaches writing at the New School University, New York University and through the True Stories Workshop. He serves on the advisory council of the Shul of New York and of the Abraham Lincoln Bicentennial Commision. His first book, Lincoln's Melancholy: How Depression Challenged a President and Fueled His Greatness, will be published by Houghton Mifflin Company in the fall of 2005. The book is available for advanced orders at Amazon.com. Contact Information
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