Nate Chinen spent a dozen years covering jazz for The New York Times and helmed a long-running column for JazzTimes. Since 2017 he has been the director of editorial content at WBGO, working with the multiplatform program "Jazz Night in America" and contributing a range of coverage to NPR Music.
He has received multiple honors from the Jazz Journalists Association, including the Helen Dance-Robert Palmer Award for Review and Feature Writing and Best Book About Jazz, for Myself Among Others: A Life in Music, which he wrote with George Wein.
While at MacDowell he worked on a book, Playing Changes: Jazz For the New Century (Pantheon, August 2018).
