Ted Genoways

Ted Genoways is an award-winning poet, journalist, and editor. He is the author of two books of poems and the nonfiction book Walt Whitman and the Civil War. He is also a contributing editor at Mother Jones and editor-at-large at OnEarth. His essays and poetry have appeared in the Atlantic, Bloomberg Businessweek, Harper's, the New Republic, Outside, and the Washington Post Book World. Ted 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. He edited the Virginia Quarterly Review from 2003 to 2012, during which time the magazine won six National Magazine Awards. Ted lives in Lincoln, Nebraska, with his family.