Joshua Jelly-Schapiro (born June 16, 1979) is an American geographer and writer. He is the author of Island People: The Caribbean and the World (2016) and the co-editor, with the writer Rebecca Solnit, of Nonstop Metropolis: A New York City Atlas (2016). Jelly-Schapiro is a regular contributor to The New York Review of Books. He has also written for The New Yorker, Harper's Magazine, The Believer, Artforum, Transition, and The Nation.