Ted Genoways

Ted Genoways (born April 13, 1972) is a contributing writer at Mother Jones and The New Republic, an editor-at-large at Pacific Standard, and the author of Blessed Earth] and Chain: Farm, Factory, and the Fate of Our Food], a finalist for the 2015 James Beard Award for Writing and Literature. 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.