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

Currently I’m at work on my first book. It’s set deep in the myth-steeped world of American truck driving and will be published by Farrar, Straus and Giroux.

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.