Matthieu Aikins

Matthieu Aikins
Aikins in 2018
EducationQueen's University at Kingston
New York University (2012)
OccupationJournalist
AwardsPulitzer Prize for International Reporting (2022), National Magazine Award for Reporting (2022), George Polk Award for Magazine Reporting (2014), Pulitzer Prize for Explanatory Reporting (2025)
Websitemaikins.com

Matthieu Aikins is a Canadian-American journalist and author best known for his reporting on the war in Afghanistan. He is a contributing writer for The New York Times Magazine and a contributing editor at Rolling Stone, as well as a Puffin Foundation Fellow at the Type Media Center. He has also been a fellow at New America, the Council on Foreign Relations, and the American Academy in Berlin.

He is a recipient of two Pulitzer Prizes, the George Polk Award, and the National Magazine Award, and his writing has appeared in the anthology The Best American Magazine Writing 2012.