Lis Harris

Lis Harris, was a staff writer for The New Yorker for more than two decades, and from 2019 to 2023 served as the Chair of Columbia University's School of the Arts Writing Program. In addition to innumerable articles, profiles, reviews, essays. and commentaries for The New Yorker, she has also contributed to The New York Times, The New York Review of Books, The World Policy Journal, Du, and other publications. Her books include Holy Days: The World of a Hasidic Family, a New York Times Notable Book of the Year; Rules of Engagement; Tilting at Mills: Green Dreams, Dirty Dealings and the Corporate Squeeze; and, most recently, In Jerusalem: Three Generations of an Israeli Family and a Palestinian Family. A two-time Woodrow Wilson Lila Acheson Wallace Fellowship recipient, she has been awarded grants from the Rockefeller Fund, The Fund for the City of New York, The J.M. Kaplan Fund, and The German Marshall Fund. Her work has been widely anthologized, most recently in The Stories We Tell: Classic True Tales by America's Greatest Women Journalists.