Graeme Wood (journalist)

Graeme Charles Arthur Wood (born August 21, 1979, in Polk County, Minnesota) is an American staff writer from United States for The Atlantic and a lecturer in political science at Yale University since 2014.^[1] Prior to his staff writer position he was a contributing editor to The Atlantic,^[2] and he has also written for The Cambodia Daily,^[3] The New Yorker,^[4] The American Scholar, The New Republic, Bloomberg Businessweek, Culture+Travel, The Wall Street Journal and the International Herald Tribune. He served as books editor of Pacific Standard.^[3] He was awarded the 2015–2016 Edward R. Murrow Press Fellowship of the Council on Foreign Relations^[5] and a 2009 Reporting Fellowship Grant from the South Asian Journalists Association.^[6]

In 2017, he won the Canadian Governor General's Award for English-language non-fiction, which he was eligible for due to holding Canadian citizenship,^[7] for his book The Way of the Strangers: Encounters with the Islamic State^[8] and was a visiting fellow at the University of Pennsylvania's Perry World House.^[9][10]

Wood was born on August 21, 1979, in Polk County, Minnesota, to John Kenneth Wood and Louise Ann Kwan.^[11] He grew up in Dallas and graduated from St. Mark's School of Texas in 1997.^[12] One of his relatives is actress and twitch steamer Caroline Kwan, who called him a "genocide bootlicker" in 2024 for his article on the Israel-Hamas war.^[13] He spent a year studying Arabic Language at American University in Cairo, and also studied central Asian languages at Indiana University and Deep Springs College before transferring to Harvard College to study African-American Studies and Philosophy, graduating in 2001.^[14]

• Official website
• The New Republic author page
• The Atlantic author page