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Brian Goldstone is a journalist and author of the Pulitzer Prize-winning book There Is No Place for Us: Working and Homeless in America. Told through the lives of five families in Atlanta, the book traces the rise of America’s “working homeless,” exposing the forces—gentrification, racialized displacement, precarious low-wage labor—fueling a deepening crisis of housing insecurity. The book was a finalist for the Carnegie Medal for Excellence in Nonfiction, named one of the 10 Best Books of 2025 by The New York Times ���Ի���The Atlantic, ���Ի���selected as one of Barack Obama’s favorite books of the year.

His longform reporting and essays have appeared in The New York Times, Harper’s,��The New Republic,��The California Sunday Magazine, Guernica, and Jacobin, among other publications. He has written about psychiatric care in Ghana, , the plight of chronic pain sufferers during an opioid epidemic,��, and, most recently, homelessness ���Ի���housing precarity. He is editor of . In 2019, he co-organized the symposium at the Columbia School of Journalism.

Brian received his PhD in anthropology from Duke University. In 2021, he was a Fellow at �鶹������ý; prior to this, he was a Mellon Research Fellow in the Society of Fellows at Columbia University. He is the recipient of grants and fellowships from the Luce Foundation, Fulbright, the Wenner-Gren Foundation, and the American Council of Learned Societies. In 2015-2016, as a Justice-in-Education Fellow at Columbia, he taught at Sing Sing prison.

Selected Work

• : The genesis for Goldstone’s book, this is the story of a working family’s futile struggle to remain housed in Atlanta—and how the city’s “revitalization,” as in many other urban centers, is coming at the expense of its low-income residents.
• : A portrait of homelessness in Salinas, a fertile corner of California that feeds much of the country.
• : A story about schizophrenia, stigma, and the perilous state of mental health care in West Africa.
• : An investigation into the collateral damage of the nation’s war on opioids: chronic pain sufferers who are being cut off from their medication.