Hugh Raffles is an anthropologist and writer, celebrated for his vivid and insightful writing. He was honored with an American Academy of Arts and Letters Award in Literature in 2023. Raffles is the author of three books and has contributed numerous essays to esteemed publications such as Granta, Public Culture, Natural History, Orion, American Ethnologist, The New York Times, The New York Review of Books, and The Best American Essays. He holds the position of Professor of Anthropology at The New School in New York.