Jori Lewis is an award-winning independent writer and editor

Jori Lewis writes narrative nonfiction that explores how people interact with their environments, focusing primarily on the intersections between nature, history, and culture. She is also the editor in chief of Adi Magazine, a literary magazine of global politics. In 2022, she published her first book, Slaves for Peanuts: A Story of Conquest, Liberation, and a Crop That Changed History, which was supported by a Whiting Creative Nonfiction Grant and a Silvers Grant for Work in Progress. It also won a James Beard media award and the Harriet Tubman Prize. She was a 2019-2020 Scripps Fellow at the University of Colorado, Boulder and a 2024-2025 Knight Science Journalism Fellow at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Her second book, A Natural History of the Spirits, is forthcoming from The New Press.