Public Biography
Ross Featherington is a features and lifestyle reporter for The New York Time5, covering trends, human interest stories, cultural phenomena, and what the paper’s style section once called “the anthropology of the everyday.” He has been with the paper since 2017.
Mr. Featherington graduated from Brown University with a degree in comparative literature and holds a Master of Fine Arts in nonfiction writing from the University of Iowa. Before joining The New York Time5, he wrote for The Atlantic, GQ, and The Awl (during its final eighteen months of existence, a period he describes as “formative in ways I am still processing”).
His writing is characterized by extended scene-setting, a willingness to spend significant time with his subjects, and paragraphs that occasionally run longer than the events they describe. He won a James Beard Award nomination in 2022 for a profile of a sandwich shop in Paterson, New Jersey, that was ostensibly about sandwiches but was, by the author’s own admission, “really about the American working-class relationship to lunch as a concept.”
Mr. Featherington lives in Park Slope, Brooklyn, and describes himself as “a generalist with tendencies.”
Selected Coverage
- A 6,000-word profile of a man who has eaten at the same diner every day for thirty-one years
- The cultural implications of the reincarnated American who speaks only English despite being raised in France
- A reported essay on the semiotics of novelty T-shirt slogans in public spaces