I'm a journalist based in Asheville, North Carolina. My features have appeared in The New Yorker, The Guardian, The New York Times Magazine, Vanity Fair, Bloomberg Businessweek, and New York, among others. My work has been supported by the Economic Hardship Reporting Project and optioned for film and television by Participant Media and Fifth Season. I have appeared as a guest on The Leonard Lopate Show and The Majority Report with Sam Seder, and in 2016, I shared a National Magazine Award for "One Block," an oral history of Bedford-Stuyvesant published by New York. Previously, I was a staff writer for The New York Observer.

Reach me here: cwpomorski@gmail.com. For formal inquiries: Adam Eaglin, at The Cheney Agency: adam@cheneyagency.com.


Selected Work:

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-Tropical Underworld, Bloomberg Businessweek
The murder case that would topple a Hawaiian crime empire.

-Untouchables, Mother Jones
The rise and fall of a criminal nursing home dynasty.

-Return of False Prophets, Bloomberg Businessweek
A Texas con man’s long strange trip.

-Where the Dog Lies Buried,New York
The billionaire behind the world’s most luxurious hotel brand.

-No Second Thoughts, The New Republic
Chris Dunn might have gone free, if only he’d been condemned to die.

-The Two Faces of Gina Champion-Cain, Bloomberg Businessweek
A San Diego Ponzi queen’s history of deceit.

-Death of a Hospital,The New Yorker
Health care without a net.

-Doctors, Guns, and Money, HuffPost Highline
Opioid noir.

-Rick Alverson’s American Nightmares, The Ringer
A profile of the director.

-The Last Temptation of Chip Skowron, Vanity Fair
A fallen hedge fund manager comes to terms with things.

-Lonely at the Top, Playboy
On suicide in the Mountain West.

-Flies in the Ointment, The New York Times Magazine
No one expects the baby formula mafia.

-Consider the Land Baron, Curbed
How the West was redistributed. 

-Atlanta's Emperor of Empty Lots, Bloomberg Businessweek
On John Dewberry. 

-Storm Sentinels, The Verge
Before the flood.

-The Man Without Qualities, Tablet
On Jared Kushner.

-Among the Missing, The Guardian
On Camden, New Jersey's cold case unit.

-The Harvest, The Awl
Of bears and men in New Jersey. 

-One Block, New York
An oral history.

-The Pied-à-terre and the Poor Door, The New York Observer
On New York's affordable housing crisis.

-Where the Wonders Never Cease, LA Review of Books
Hope and consequences in Atlantic City. 

-On the Map, The Paris Review
Sherwood Anderson and the mythologies of small towns.

-What Nothing Means, The Virginia Quarterly Review
The peculiar pathos of Seinfeld reruns.


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-Sympathy for the Bondsman, New York
In New Jersey, twilight for a reviled industry.  

-Letter of Recommendation, The New York Times Magazine
On the pleasures of SmartWool Socks.

-n+1's Favorite Fracker, Tablet
On Wall Street novelist Gary Sernovitz.

-Curb Your Enthusiasm, New York
Chinese wealth and New York real estate.

-The Disinterred, Smithsonian
On buried treasure.  

-Mürmurings, The Paris Review
Transmissions from underground. 

-Some of My Best Friends Are Jewish, Tablet
The Neocons vs. Donald Trump.

-Cabin Fever, The New York Observer
Brooklyn heads for the hills. 

-The Shit Show, with Jon Stuart, The New York Observer
Trouble with neighbors. 

-Good Night, And Good Luck, TheNew York Observer
Last call at East Village Radio.

-Power Broker, The New York Observer
NFL goes UES. 

-Design, Obtain, Cherish, The New York Observer
The revolution is in the lobby. 


Photo credit: Joshua Bright.