Noah is an award-winning writer based in Colorado. His journalism and essays have appeared in the New York Times Magazine, Harper’s, Oxford American, and many others.

Noah Gallagher Shannon grew up in northern Colorado and holds an MFA in nonfiction writing from Columbia University. His work has appeared in the New York Times Magazine, the Paris Review, the Los Angeles Review of Books, Runner’s World, and elsewhere.

He is currently working on a book for Random House about track and field, 1970s West Texas and a group of young athletes from East Africa who changed the sports world.