Joshua Jelly-Schapiro is a geographer and writer whose books include Names of New York, Island People: The Caribbean and the World, and, with Rebecca Solnit, Nonstop Metropolis: A New York City Atlas. His work appears regularly in The New York Review of Books, The New Yorker, and The New York Times, among many other publications. Jelly-Schapiro teaches in the Arthur L. Carter Journalism Institute at NYU, and has since 2022 directed the popular Author Talks series at Pioneer Works in Brooklyn.