Nicky Woolf is a writer and journalist based between London and New York. A graduate of the student newspaper (and technically the English literature department) at the University of York, he moved to Hicksville, Ohio, in 2012 to cover US politics for the New Statesman magazine, before downgrading to New York to study journalism and neuroscience at Columbia. Then he joined the Guardian as a US correspondent, reporting over the years from Silicon Valley, Capitol Hill, and pretty much everywhere inbetween, before leaving to launch New Statesman America, a new US sister-site of the venerable UK political magazine.

Over the years he became terminally online, and cultivated a masochistic niche reporting on the weird stuff that happens when technology, internet subculture, and politics meet. All that time delving into conspiracy theories, online radicalisation, information ecosystems, and the rise of the digital far right, turned his brain basically into mush - but also led him to his first foray into podcasting with Finding Q, an award-winning Audible series investigating the shadowy figures behind the movement known as Qanon.