About Ted

Ted Scheinman is a writer and editor based in Washington, D.C., where he serves as senior editor at Smithsonian magazine. Before that, he lived in Southern California, where he worked as a senior editor for Pacific Standard magazine. He has taught courses on literature and journalism at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and speaks good French, middling Italian, and surprisingly decent Latin.

His essays and reporting have appeared in the Atlantic, the Chronicle of Higher Education, GQ, the New Republic, the New York Times, the Paris Review, Playboy, Slate, and beyond. He is also a contributing editor at the Los Angeles Review of Books.

He is the author of Camp Austen (FSG, 2018) and Jolt: My Electric Journey out of Darkness (Scribner, Nov. 10, 2026).

He is fortunate to be represented in the U.S. by Allison Devereux at Trellis Literary Management, and in the U.K. by Carrie Plitt of Felicity Bryan Associates.