Evan Gershkovich is a foreign correspondent for The Wall Street Journal. Currently based in Berlin, he spent nearly seven years reporting in Russia. He was part of a team of reporters named a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize in 2025 for an investigation into Russian security services that also won prizes from the Overseas Press Club and the New York Press Club. For his reporting on international affairs, he received the Arthur Ross Media Award in 2024. He has also written for The New York Times, The Economist, and Foreign Policy, among other publications.
While at MacDowell, Gershkovich completed multiple chapters from his upcoming memoir about his time imprisoned in Russia, his five years living in Moscow, and the country’s slide toward autocracy to be published by Crown, an imprint of Penguin Random House.
Portrait by Masha Borzunova
