About

I write articles and make podcasts. I was the host, writer, and co-executive producer of Project Unabom (Apple TV+), and I’m the co-creator of the ongoing podcast series Suspect (Amazon).

My shows have made the best-of-the-year lists of the New Yorker and Vulture, have won awards from the Podcast Academy and NYU’s Arthur L. Carter Journalism Institute, and have reached #1 on the Apple Podcast charts.

In the print world, I’m a writer-at-large at Texas Monthly, where my 2016 cover story on Nobel Prize–winning immunologist Jim Allison won best profile at the National City and Regional Magazine Awards. My work has also appeared in Rolling Stone, The New York Times Magazine, New York, and Men’s Journal.

Originally from New York City, I live in Dallas.

Email: elbenson [at] gmail [dot] com

Twitter: @elbenson