Joe Fassler

Features Editor, The New Food Economy

As the deputy editor, Joe Fassler has covered the intersections of food, policy, technology, and culture for The New Food Economy since 2015. His food reporting has twice been a finalist for the James Beard Foundation Award in Journalism, and he is also the editor of Light the Dark: Writers on Creativity, Inspiration, and the Creative Process  (Penguin, 2017); it is a book based on By Heart, his ongoing series of literary conversations for The Atlantic.