Biography

Caleb Gayle is an award-winning journalist who writes about race and identity and is a contributing writer for the New York Times Magazine. His writing has been recognized by the Matthew Power Literary Reporting Award, the PEN America Writing for Justice Fellowship, the Center for Fiction Emerging Writers Fellowship, the New America Fellowship, among others. Caleb’s writing has been featured o in The New York Times, The Guardian, the Three Penny Review, Guernica, the New York Times Magazine, the Atlantic, the Harvard Review, Pacific Standard, the New Republic, The Boston Globe, Los Angeles Review of Books, The Root, the Daily Beast, and more. Caleb’s writing has been anthologized as a Notable Essay in the 2019 Best American Essays.

Caleb completed his undergraduate studies at the University of Oklahoma as a Truman Scholar. He also completed his graduate studies at the University of Oxford, and has an MBA and a master’s in public policy, both Harvard Business School and the Harvard Kennedy School respectively where he attended as a Paul & Daisy Soros Fellow. In addition to writing, Gayle serves as a Senior Fellow and Professor of Practice at Northeastern University as well as a Visiting Scholar at the Arthur Carter Journalism Institute at NYU. He is currently completing his next book as a fellow at Harvard’s Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study.

Caleb lives in Boston with his wife, Ramone, and mini-goldendoodle, Asher.