Sarah A. Topol

Sarah A. Topol is a staff writer at The Atlantic. Her 2024 investigation into the Russian military was published as a full issue of The New York Times Magazine and won a George Polk Award, a National Magazine Award for Feature Writing, and an Overseas Press Club Award, among other honors. She also received a National Magazine Award for Feature Writing in 2020 for her work on the Rohingya genocide and an Overseas Press Club Award for Magazine Writing in 2021 for her work on the Uyghur ethnic cleansing, among other honors.

Before joining The Atlantic in 2026, Topol spent nine years as a contributing writer at The New York Times Magazine, where she wrote cover stories on subjects as varied as the young boys kidnapped by Boko Haram, Taiwanese identity, the protest movement in Belarus, the war in Ukraine, the global fertility industry, and the militarization of the Pacific. She has reported from more than 40 countries, focusing on the effects of geopolitical change on ordinary lives.