Ted Genoways

Ted Genoways (born April 13, 1972)^[1] 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"^[2] and by The Times Literary Supplement as a "tenacious scholar."^[3] 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."^[4] 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.

Biography

Genoways was born in

According to Publishers Weekly, his next book Tequila Wars: The Bloody Struggle for the Spirit of Mexico is scheduled to be edited by John Glusman at Norton. "Tequila Wars examines agave farming in Mexico and aims to 'tell the story of the modern tequila industry.'"^[18]

Bibliography

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Nonfiction

• Walt Whitman and the Civil War: America's Poet During the Lost Years of 1860-1862, University of California Press, 2009,
  ISBN 978-0-520-25906-5
• The Chain: Farm, Factory, and the Fate of Our Food, HarperCollins, 2014,
  ISBN 978-0062288776
• This Blessed Earth: A Year in the Life of an American Farm Family, W. W. Norton, 2017,
  ISBN 978-0-393-29257-2
• "The great abandonment". The New Republic. 248 (1–2): 42–49. January–February 2017.

• A Perfect Picture of Hell: Eyewitness Accounts by Civil War Prisoners from the 12th Iowa (co-editor), University of Iowa Press, 2001,
  ISBN 978-0-87745-759-6
• Hard time: voices from a state prison, 1849-1914, Minnesota Historical Society Press, 2002,
  ISBN 978-0-87351-434-7
• Walt Whitman: The Correspondence, Volume VII, Iowa, 2004,
  ISBN 978-0877458913

• Bullroarer: A Sequence, Northeastern University Press, 2001,
  ISBN 978-1-55553-507-0
• Anna, Washing, University of Georgia Press, 2008,
  ISBN 978-0-8203-3206-2

• The Dead Have a Way of Returning, Brooding Heron Press, 1997,
  ISBN 978-0-918116-92-5
• The Cow Caught in the Ice, Soundpost Press, University of Wisconsin–LaCrosse, 1999.
• Anna, washing, Parallel Press, University of Wisconsin–Madison, 2001,
  ISBN 1-893311-19-8

• Burning the Hymnal: The Uncollected Poems of William Kloefkorn, Slow Tempo Press, 1994,
  ISBN 978-0963555939
• The Selected Poems of Miguel Hernández, University of Chicago Press, 2001,
  ISBN 978-0-22632-773-0
• Joseph Kalar, Papermill: Poems, 1927-1935, University of Illinois Press, 2006,
  ISBN 978-0252072000
• Swallowing the Soap: The Selected Poems of William Kloefkorn, University of Nebraska Press, 2010,
  ISBN 978-0803234055

• 2018 James Beard Foundation Award, Investigative Reporting[19]
• 2018 Stubbendieck Great Plains Distinguished Book Prize for This Blessed Earth^[20]
• 2016 Association of Food Journalists Award, Best Writing on Beer, Wine or Spirits^[21]
• 2016 Association of Food Journalists Award, Best Food Business Story, Finalist^[22]
• 2016 James Beard Foundation Award for Food Reporting, Finalist^[23]
• 2015 James Beard Foundation Award for Writing and Literature, Finalist^[24]
• 2014 National Press Club Award^[25]
• 2014 James Aronson Award for Social Justice Journalism^[26]
• 2014 Association of Food Journalists Award, Best Story on Food Policy or Food Issues, Finalist^[27]
• 2010 Guggenheim Fellowship
• 2010 Choice / American Library Association Outstanding Academic Title for Walt Whitman and the Civil War^[4]
• 2003 National Endowment for the Arts fellowship in Poetry.^[28]
• 2002 Natalie Ornish Poetry Award for Bullroarer^[29]
• 2002
  Nebraska Book Award for Poetry for Bullroarer^[30]