I’m a writer and reporter who is particularly interested in what happens at the intersection of labor, politics, and landscape.

My writing has been published by Harper’s, Oxford American, the New Yorker, n+1, 1843, the Nation, California Sunday Magazine, and the Yale Review, among other outlets, and in the anthologies CITY BY CITY (n+1/FSG) and A WORLD OUT OF REACH (Yale University Press). I’ve been a finalist for the National Magazine Award in profile writing and twice for the Livingston Award for excellence in national reporting by journalists under 35.

I grew up in Arizona, studied comparative literature at Brown University, and worked on the editorial staff at the New Yorker. I live in Austin, Texas.

You can reach me at emily.gogolak@gmail.com.

​I'm represented by Adam Eaglin at The Cheney Agency.