Mark Chiusano is a journalist and the author of The Fabulist: The Lying, Hustling, Grifting, Stealing, and Very American Legend of George Santos<\/i>, and the story collection Marine Park<\/i>, a PEN\/Hemingway honorable mention. He spent nearly eight years writing about New York politics and policy at Newsday<\/i> and now contributes to places like New York<\/i> magazine, Politico Magazine, TIME, The Nation,<\/i> and Documented.<\/i> He has also published fiction in The Paris Review, McSweeney\u2019s, The Iowa Review,<\/i> and Electric Lit<\/i> and founded the fiction Substack Works Progress<\/i>. He was a 2024 finalist for the Richard J. Margolis Award for nonfiction writers of social-justice journalism, among other awards. He teaches English at the College of Technology, City University of New York, and is a senior fellow at New York Law School\u2019s Center for New York City and State Law.<\/p>
Chiusano spent the last year working app-based jobs, from delivery biking to rideshare driving to online rating, to report for his current book project about the underbelly of the gig economy.<\/p>