Malcolm Gay is a contributing writer at The New York Times. His work has also appeared in The Atlantic, Wired, and the Washington Monthly, among other publications.

He has written dispatches from communities across the Midwest,  recently covering the great Mississippi River flood of 2011 as well as the impeachment proceedings of former Illinois Gov. Rod R. Blagojevich for The Times.

In 2004, the Society of Professional Journalists, Northern California Chapter, named him that year’s “Outstanding Emerging Journalist,” and in 2005 he received the James Beard Award for Nutrition or Food-Related Consumer Issues. His writing has since received several other accolades, including top honors in 2008 from the Association of Alternative Newsweeklies and in 2009 from the National Association of Black Journalists. In 2010 he won the Woodward-Bernstein Award from the Missouri Association of Criminal Defense Lawyers.

He holds a B.A. in Philosophy from The Colorado College and an M.J. from the University of California, Berkeley, Graduate School of Journalism. He’s at work on a book about  Brain-Machine Interfaces to be published by Farrar, Straus and Giroux in the United States and Text Publishing in Australia.

Contact:

• You can reach Malcolm Gay at malcolmdgay(at)gmail(dot)com.

• For inquiries about publishing rights, please contact David Halpern or Kathy Robbins at The Robbins Office, 405 Park Avenue, New York, NY, 10022, or by telephone at 212.223.0720.