Michael Luo

Michael M. Luo (; born 1976) is an American journalist who is the executive editor of The New Yorker and its website. Previously, he wrote for The New York Times as an investigative reporter.

Early life and education Luo was born into a Taiwanese American family in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania in 1976. His parents were waishengren who had fled mainland China during the Great Retreat . His father was raised in Tainan, Taiwan, and immigrated to the United States in 1967 to study for a doctorate in electrical engineering at the University of Chicago. Luo's mother came to the U.S. to earn a master's degree in accounting at Western Illinois University. His paternal grandfather was a Kuomintang general in the National Revolutionary Army who disappeared in 1948. Their ancestral home was in Hunan.

Luo spent his early childhood in upstate New York, and then attended high school in Michigan. He graduated from Harvard University with a Bachelor of Arts in government in 1998. As an undergraduate at Harvard College, he wrote for The Harvard Crimson.

Career Luo was a staff writer for two years for the Associated Press, where he wrote narrative feature stories, while also working at Newsday as a police reporter on Long Island.

Luo went on to edit investigations at The New Yorker, and was eventually promoted to manage the magazine's entire digital presence.

On April 29, 2025, Luo released a debut nonfiction book, Strangers in the Land, about the history of the Chinese in America.

Personal life Luo resides on the Upper East Side of Manhattan with his wife, Wenny. They have two daughters, Madeleine and Vivienne.