Rosecrans Baldwin is the bestselling author of Everything Now, winner of the California Book Award. Other books include The Last Kid Left and Paris, I Love You but You’re Bringing Me Down. His debut novel, You Lost Me There, was a New York Times Book Review Editors’ Choice.
Rosecrans is a correspondent for GQ and a frequent contributor at Travel + Leisure. Several of his articles have been selected for the Best American Essays and Best American Travel Writing collections, and he was a finalist for a James Beard Foundation Journalism Award. On Substack, he writes “Meditations in an Emergency,” a weekly essay about something beautiful, with a Sunday supplement for supporters.
In Hollywood, Rosecrans co-wrote the documentary Stone Locals. Unproduced credits include film and TV projects for A+E Studios, CBS Studios, and Groundswell Productions. He’s written award-winning podcasts for LAist Studios (LA Made: Blood, Sweat & Rockets) and Luminary (British Villains). For two years, Rosecrans was an on-air commentator for National Public Radio’s All Things Considered.
In advertising and creative consulting, he works with individuals, agencies, and brands. Previous clients include Hennessy, InterContinental Hotels & Resorts, JPMorgan Chase, Louis Vuitton, Patagonia, and Shinola. Inquiries can be sent through the contact page.
A MacDowell fellow, Rosecrans has taught nonfiction writing at Duke University, fiction writing at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, and he was an author-in-residence at Miami Dade College’s Miami Writers Institute. And in a galaxy far, far away, he started the online literary zine tmn, where he and co-founder Andrew Womack continue to write the headlines newsletter and oversee the annual Tournament of Books.
He lives in Los Angeles.