Katherine Boo

Katherine Boo has been a staff writer at The New Yorker since 2003 and a contributor since 2001. Her writing focuses on issues of poverty, opportunity, social and economic policy, and education. Her article “The Marriage Cure,” on marriage seminars for the poor in Oklahoma City, received a National Magazine Award for Feature Writing in 2004.

Before joining The New Yorker, Boo was a writer and editor for the Washington Post, where, for a decade, she was a member of the Outlook and Investigative staffs.

She was also an editor and writer for the Washington City Paper and The Washington Monthly.

In 2000, she received the Pulitzer Prize for Public Service, and, in 2002, she was awarded a MacArthur fellowship, in recognition of her body of work on the disadvantaged.

Boo lives in Washington, D.C.