Jacob Mikanowski

Jacob Mikanowski is a writer and academic. His parents were Polish immigrants to the US, and he spent his childhood between Poland and Pennsylvania. He is now a PhD candidate at the UC Berkeley in California. Concurrently, he has become a well-known essayist and freelance journalist, writing pieces for publications including the Guardian , New York Times , Atlantic , New Yorker , Harper's, Slate , Aeon , Prospect Magazine and many more. His two long reads for the Guardian were included in the...See more

Jacob Mikanowski is a writer and academic. His parents were Polish immigrants to the US, and he spent his childhood between Poland and Pennsylvania. He is now a PhD candidate at the UC Berkeley in California. Concurrently, he has become a well-known essayist and freelance journalist, writing pieces for publications including the Guardian , New York Times , Atlantic , New Yorker , Harper's, Slate , Aeon , Prospect Magazine and many more. His two long reads for the Guardian were included in the paper's 'Best of the Year' round-up in 2018. See less