Michael Luo is an executive editor at The New Yorker and writes regularly for the magazine on politics, religion, and Asian American issues. His first book, “Strangers in the Land: Exclusion, Belonging, and the Epic Story of the Chinese in America,” was published by Doubleday in 2025. It was named a best book of the year by The New Yorker, the Washington Post, Time, the Boston Globe, Bloomberg Businessweek, Kirkus Reviews, and the Library Journal, and long-listed for the National Book Critics Circle Award for nonfiction. He joined The New Yorker in 2016 as an investigations editor and later became the editor of the magazine’s website. In 2024, he was named executive editor. Previously, he spent thirteen years at the New York Times, as a metro reporter, national correspondent, and investigative reporter and editor. He is a recipient of a George Polk Award and a Livingston Award for Young Journalists.