Hello! You’ve reached the digital address for Peter Mellgard. That’s me. Until summer 2026 I was the editor of the Berggruen Press, a book-publishing project at the Berggruen Institute. RIP. We made some really interesting books in a short time; my favorites were the one about more-than-human governance (Jonathon Keats) and the one about Indian philosophy (Bruno Maçães). There are more and they are all good, you should read them!

Before starting the Press I co-founded Noema Magazine, where I was an editor for six years, and for now I remain on the team. Numerous pieces I commissioned and edited over the years won awards for writing or design or both, and a few were selected for inclusion in Best American anthologies.

Next year I’m starting something new with funding from Open Society: a series of short books or long essays, depending on where you draw the line, about humans and technology. It’ll be called Prism. The goal is to situate the development of future-shaping technologies in the present — in the cultures, histories, traditions, belief systems, geopolitical rivalries, corporate strategies, and personal ambitions that influence the people building the world to come. The question at the heart of the whole project is: Whose world shall become legible to machines?

I also write sometimes, mostly adventurous environmental stories from far-flung places like Southeast Alaska, the Marshall Islands, rural Germany, Haiti, northwestern Canada, and elsewhere.

I’m working on some other stuff too, like garden projects. Stay tuned for more. In the meantime:

Email me: hi@petermellgard.info.

This website is set in AWT Hamilton Jenson Old Style, a typeface from the Rob Roy Kelly American Wood Type Collection at the University of Texas, which was digitized in 2013 by Dick Pape. The color gradient was developed using delphitools.