Eyal Press

Harman Writer-In-Residence Fall 2024

Journalist and author Eyal Press is our Fall 2024 Harman Writer-In-Residence.  He is a regular contributor to the New York Times and a staff writer at the New Yorker who covers a sweeping span of subjects including mass incarceration, social inequality, the abortion conflict, and labor and workplace conditions. His third and latest book, Dirty Work, explores the morally troubling labor of essential workers in the United States, unveiling the societal systems that both mandate and obscure its tolls. It won the 2022 Hillman Prize for Book Journalism and was named a New York Times Notable Book of 2021. His honors include the James Aronson Award for Social Justice Journalism, an Andrew Carnegie fellowship, a Cullman Center fellowship at the New York Public Library, and a Puffin Foundation fellowship at Type Media Center.  His first book, Absolute Convictions (2006), is about the abortion wars in Buffalo and their direct influence on his father’s medical practice.  Beautiful Souls (2013) tells the story of several “ordinary” people who risked their careers and livelihood to defy unjust orders and stands as a stunning testament to human courage.