Ted Genoways is an acclaimed journalist and author of The Chain: Farm, Factory, and the Fate of Our Food. A contributing editor at Mother Jones, the New Republic, and Pacific Standard, he is the winner of a National Press Club Award and the James Aronson Award for Social Justice Journalism and is a two-time James Beard Foundation Award finalist. He has received fellowships from the NEA and the Guggenheim Foundation. A fourth-generation Nebraskan, Genoways lives outside Lincoln with his wife, Mary Anne Andrei, and their son.
Books in order of publication:
Nonfiction
Walt Whitman and the Civil War: America’s Poet During the Lost Years of 1860-1862, University of California Press, 2009
The Chain: Farm, Factory, and the Fate of Our Food, HarperCollins, 2014
This Blessed Earth: A Year in the Life of an American Farm Family, W. W. Norton, 2017
Tequila Wars: José Cuervo and the Bloody Struggle for the Spirit of Mexico, W.W. Norton, 2025
Poetry
Collections
Bullroarer: A Sequence, Northeastern University Press, 2001
Anna, Washing, University of Georgia Press, 2008
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