Graeme Wood is a staff writer at The Atlantic and a
journalist in residence at Yale University. He began his career reporting in
Cambodia in 1998, then lived and reported in the Middle East, including long
stints in Iran, Egypt, Afghanistan, and Iraq.
He joined The Atlantic in 2006 and has also written for The
Wall Street Journal, The New York Times, Jane's Defence Weekly, and The New
Yorker. His 2015 Atlantic cover story on the Islamic State, "What ISIS
Really Wants," is the most-read story in the history of the magazine.
His book The Way of the Strangers: Encounters with the
Islamic State (Random House) was one of Foreign Affairs' "Best Books of
the Year" and won the Canadian Governor General's Award for Nonfiction.