Hello. You’ve reached the digital address for Peter Mellgard. That’s me. Until recently (summer 2026) I was the editor of the Berggruen Press, the Berggruen Institute’s short-lived in-house book-publishing project. RIP. We managed to make some great books in a short time. My favorites were the one about more-than-human governance and another about Indian philosophy. You should be able to buy them from the Berggruen Institute’s webstore, or email me and I’ll try to track one down for you.

Before starting the Press I co-founded Noema Magazine, where I was an editor for six years. For now I remain on the team, focusing on special projects and multimedia stories. 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.

I write occasionally. The most recent story I did was about sailing through the islands of Southeast Alaska with a crew of environmental activists hoping to preserve the old-growth hemlock and cedar forests that dominate the landscape there. I have reported other stories from inside lignite mines and artificial lakes in Germany, the edge of disappearing atolls in the Marshall Islands, and the off-grid health clinics in the hills of Haiti. Some of this work was funded by grants from the International Journalists’ Program, the United Nations Foundation, the European Forest Institute, and a Mongabay Special Reporting Initiative.

I’m working on some new stuff now, like garden projects and prism. More on all that soon. 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.