YONI GELERNTER is a writer, journalist, and producer based in Brooklyn. His fiction has appeared or is forthcoming in The Kenyon Review, The Baffler, Santa Monica Review, Jewish Currents, and elsewhere; his essays on politics and culture have appeared or are forthcoming in The Drift, Image Journal, Bruiser, and other publications.

He has also worked as a fraud researcher, ghostwriter, high school teacher, and private investigator. In 2026, he was a resident writer at Yaddo.

AUTHOR WEBSITE: YONI GELERNTER

THE MASADA OPTION:
ZIONISM’S DEATH DRIVE

THE DRIFT Issue 16, Dec 2 2025

“ALLEGORY OF HANDS”
NEW PAPERS Volume 5

“THE PENSIONER”
THE BAFFLER Oct 14, 2022

“SHAME (2024)”
SANTA MONICA REVIEW
Spring 2026

YONI GELERNTER