Maurice Chammah is a staff writer at The Marshall Project, where he was on a team that won the 2021 Pulitzer Prize for National Reporting. His first book, Let the Lord Sort Them: The Rise and Fall of the Death Penalty, was published by Crown in 2021, and won the Writers’ League of Texas Nonfiction Book Award, as well as the 2019 J. Anthony Lukas Work-In-Progress Book Award. He was a 2023 senior fellow with the Dart Center for Journalism and Trauma at Columbia University. He co-founded The Insider Prize, a contest for incarcerated writers sponsored by American Short Fiction. He lives in Austin, Texas, after periods in New York City, Cairo, and Amman.
