OUR TEAM
Reif Larsen
Founder
Reif Larsen founded the Future of Small Cities Institute in 2020. A novelist and journalist, he has written widely on cities in transition, including London, Detroit, Sarajevo, Los Angeles, Havana, and Gothenburg. His work has been published in The New York Times, The Guardian, GQ, The Harvard Review, Tin House, McSweeney's, Virginia Quarterly Review, Asymptote Journal and The Believer. His first novel, The Selected Works of T. S. Spivet, was a New York Times bestseller, translated into twenty-seven languages, and was adapted into a movie by Jean-Pierre Jeunet (Amélie). He has written several children’s books, including Uma Wimple Charts Her House, published in 2021. He is also a filmmaker and has shot documentaries in South Africa, the UK, and the USA. He lives in Troy, NY with his wife and two children.
