Donovan Hohn is the author of two books, The Inner Coast: Essays (2020) and Moby-Duck: The True Story of 28,800 Bath Toys Lost at Sea (2011). The latter was a New York Times Notable Book and runner-up for both the PEN/John Kenneth Galbraith Award for Nonfiction and the PEN/E. O. Wilson Literary Science Writing Award. His essays have appeared in such publications as Harper's, The New York Times Magazine, The Virginia Quarterly Review, Lapham's Quarterly, and The New Republic. He is the recipient of the Whiting Writer’s Award, an NEA Creative Writing Fellowship, and a 2026 Guggenheim Fellowship. Hohn spent several years as senior editor at Harper’s and a few years as features editor of GQ. He has taught nonfiction in the MFA program of the University of Michigan and directed the creative writing program at Wayne State University. Since June 2025, he has served as the acting editor of Lapham’s Quarterly and the host of that magazine’s podcast, The World in Time.