Charlie Brinkhurst-Cuff

Photo credit: Shope Delano

In Residence: August 2026

Charlie Brinkhurst-Cuff is an award-winning journalist, editor, and podcaster, and currently Lead Editor at The Fuller Project. Her work spans journalism, literature, audio, and screen, with a focus on cross-disciplinary, project-based storytelling. She was previously Editor-in-Chief of gal-dem magazine and later a Senior Staff Editor at The New York Times. In 2024, she completed a fellowship at the University of Oxford’s Reuters Institute for the Study of Journalism, where her research examined underreported missing persons cases.

Brinkhurst-Cuff is the editor of Black Joy (Penguin, 2021) and I Will Not Be Erased (Walker, 2019), and the editor and lead author of Mother Country (Hachette, 2018). Her first narrative podcast, The Missing Sister, was released in 2025.

During her residency at Artica Svalbard, Brinkhurst-Cuff will work on journalism for The Fuller Project alongside a new book project titled The Explorers: following teenagers Clara and Ralph on parallel journeys to the Amazon Rainforest and the Arctic Circle.

Instagram: @charliebcuff