Welcome Charlie Brinkhurst-Cuff

We are very happy to welcome Charlie Brinkhurst-Cuff to Artica Svalbard for a residency this month.

Charlie Brinkhurst-Cuff is an award-winning journalist, editor and podcaster whose work spans journalism, literature, audio and screen. Her cross-disciplinary, project-based practice explores overlooked stories and underrepresented voices through long-form reporting and narrative storytelling. She is currently Lead Editor at The Fuller Project and was previously Editor-in-Chief of gal-dem magazine before joining The New York Times as a Senior Staff Editor.

Charlie is the editor of Black Joy (Penguin, 2021) and I Will Not Be Erased (Walker, 2019), as well as the editor and lead author of Mother Country (Hachette, 2018). In 2024, she completed a fellowship at the University of Oxford's Reuters Institute for the Study of Journalism, where she researched underreported missing persons cases. Her first narrative podcast, The Missing Sister, was released in 2025.

During her residency at Artica Svalbard, Charlie will continue her journalism for The Fuller Project while developing a new book project, The Explorers. The book follows two teenagers, Clara and Ralph, on parallel journeys to the Amazon rainforest and the Arctic, exploring discovery, environment and the different ways young people come to understand the natural world.

We look forward to supporting Charlie's research and writing during her time at Artica Svalbard.