Brian Goldstone

Journalist and anthropologist Brian Goldstone’s nonfiction debut There Is No Place for Us: Working and Homeless in America exposes the growing and troubling trend of “working homeless” in cities across America through the unforgettable stories of five Atlanta families. One of The New York Times’ 10 Best Books of 2025 and a finalist for the Carnegie Medal for Excellence in Nonfiction, There Is No Place for Us is a “gripping, high-stakes account of America’s housing emergency” (Publisher’s Weekly) which follows parents and children sleeping in cars and squalid extended-stay hotel rooms in an increasingly unequal city where urban “revitalization” comes at the expense of its low-income residents. Goldstone’s longform reporting and essays have appeared in The New York Times, Harper’s Magazine, The New Republic, and The California Sunday Magazine, among other publications. He earned his PhD from Duke University and was a Mellon Research Fellow in the Society of Fellows at Columbia University. In 2021, he was a National Fellow at New America. He lives in Atlanta with his family.