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About Ted Genoways

Author Ted GenowaysTed Genoways is an award-winning poet, journalist, and editor. 

In 2003, while he was still a doctoral student at the University of Iowa and working on the Iowa Review, Genoways was hired by the University of Virginia to edit the Virginia Quarterly Review.  He served as editor for the next nine years, during which time the magazine received six National Magazine Awards, two Utne Independent Press Awards, and an Overseas Press Club Award.

Genoways is a contributing writer at Mother Jones and The New Republic, as well as editor-at-large at Pacific Standard. His work has appeared in Harper's, The New Republic, The New York Times Magazine, Outside, and the Washington Post Book World.

He is a winner of a National Press Club Award and the James Aronson Award for Social Justice Journalism, and he has received fellowships from the NEA and the Guggenheim Foundation.

In addition to This Blessed Earth: A Year in the Life of an American Family Farm (2017), he is the author of two books of poems and the nonfiction books The Chain: Farm, Factory, and the Fate of Our Food (2014) and Walt Whitman and the Civil War (2009).

He lives in Lincoln, Nebraska, with his wife and son.

Visit Ted Genoways’ website www.tedgenoways.com.

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