Mark Chiusano

Photo Credit: Charlotte Alter

Mark Chiusano is the author of The Fabulist: The Lying, Hustling, Grifting, Stealing, and Very American Legend of George Santos and Marine Park, which received an honorable mention for the PEN/Hemingway Award. His work appears in outlets such as The New York Times, New York Magazine, Vanity Fair, TIME, The Atlantic, Politico, McSweeney's, Guernica, The Drift, The Nation, and The Paris Review. He was a 2026 New America Fellow while working on his forthcoming book about the gig economy, Dash, Drive, Deliver: My Year in America’s Gig Economy. Mark was born and raised in Brooklyn, spent some summers playing baseball in Switzerland, worked at Alfred A. Knopf and Vintage Books, wrote a city column for amNewYork, and served as a columnist and editorial board member and sometime podcast maker for Newsday. He currently teaches English at CUNY City Tech and is a senior fellow at New York Law School, where he runs the Gig Economy Project. He is the co-editor of the fiction substack Works Progress. He lives in Brooklyn with his wife, journalist and writer Charlotte Alter.

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