Ted Genoways

Ted Genoways (born April 13, 1972) is an American journalist and author. He is a contributing writer at ''Mother Jones'' and ''The New Republic'', and an editor-at-large at ''Pacific Standard''. His books include ''This Blessed Earth'' and ''The Chain: Farm, Factory, and the Fate of Our Food.''

He has been hailed by the ''Minneapolis Star-Tribune'' as a "marvelous poet" and by ''The Times Literary Supplement'' as a "tenacious scholar." He is the author of two books of poems and the literary history ''Walt Whitman and the Civil War'', which, the ''Richmond Times-Dispatch'' wrote, "fills in a major gap in previous biographies of Whitman and rebuts the canard that Whitman was unaffected by the war and the run-up to it." His awards include fellowships from the National Endowment for the Arts, the Guggenheim Foundation, and inclusion in the ''Pushcart Prize Anthology'' and ''Best American Travel Writing''. He was editor of the ''Virginia Quarterly Review'' from 2003 to 2012, during which time the magazine won six National Magazine Awards. Provided by Wikipedia