Michael Grunwald is a best-selling author and journalist who writes about government policy, especially climate policy, as well as American politics. He has won the George Polk Award for national reporting, the Worth Bingham Prize for investigative reporting and many other journalism honors.

After growing up on Long Island and graduating from Harvard College in 1992, Mike spent nearly three decades as a staff writer for The Boston Globe, The Washington Post, TIME Magazine and POLITICO Magazine. Mike is the author of two critically acclaimed books, The Swamp: The Everglades, Florida, and the Politics of Paradise (Simon & Schuster, 2006), which was adapted for a PBS documentary, and The New New Deal: The Hidden Story of Change in the Obama Era (Simon & Schuster, 2012), which spent four weeks on the New York Times best-seller list. He left POLITICO in May 2021 to work on a new book about how to feed the world without frying the world.

Mike is married to Cristina Dominguez, a lawyer and Aryuvedic counselor.  They live in Miami with their son, Max, their daughter, Lina and their dogs, Cookie and Wags.