About
Jori Lewis writes narrative nonfiction that explores how people interact with their environments. Her reports and essays have been published in The Atlantic Magazine, Orion Magazine and Emergence Magazine, among others. In 2022, she published her first book, Slaves for Peanuts: A Story of Conquest, Liberation, and a Crop That Changed History, which was supported by the prestigious Whiting Creative Nonfiction Grant and a Silvers Grant for Work in Progress. It also won a James Beard media award and the Harriet Tubman Prize. She was a 2024-2025 Knight Science Journalism Fellow at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and a 2019-2020 Scripps Fellow at the University of Colorado, Boulder.