I'm a freelance writer with bylines at The Awl, Bloomberg Businessweek, Mother Jones, The Nation, The New Yorker, The New York Times, The San Francisco Chronicle, Slate, and The Washington Post. My first book, "Brazillionaires," will be out from Random House (via the Spiegel & Grau imprint) in July 2016.
Going farther back: I grew up in Albuquerque, New Mexico. After graduating from Sarah Lawrence College (class of '05) , I worked for a while in book publishing in New York before moving to Bogotá to become a journalist. In 2010 I moved to São Paulo, where I spent a couple of years...
Lydia Reeder
As I see it, my job as an author is to bring to light lost heroes who led humble, hardworking lives like those featured in my first book, Dust Bowl Girls.
An Oklahoma native, my roots run deep. Some of my favorite times as a child were spent on my grandfather's ranch near Chickasha making hay-bale tunnels, fishing for bass, or traipsing through miles of pasture. I always had a skinned knee or a sunburned nose. There was nothing like the beauty of an Oklahoma sunset. At night, the only noises were crickets and wind.
Today, I live in Denver with my husband and our five cats. My outdoor...
Alex Cuadros
I'm a freelance writer with bylines at The Awl, Bloomberg Businessweek, Mother Jones, The Nation, The New Yorker, The New York Times, The San Francisco Chronicle, Slate, and The Washington Post. My first book, "Brazillionaires," will be out from Random House (via the Spiegel & Grau imprint) in July 2016.
Going farther back: I grew up in Albuquerque, New Mexico. After graduating from Sarah Lawrence College (class of '05) , I worked for a while in book publishing in New York before moving to Bogotá to become a journalist. In 2010 I moved to São Paulo, where I spent a couple of years...
Lydia Reeder
As I see it, my job as an author is to bring to light lost heroes who led humble, hardworking lives like those featured in my first book, Dust Bowl Girls.
An Oklahoma native, my roots run deep. Some of my favorite times as a child were spent on my grandfather's ranch near Chickasha making hay-bale tunnels, fishing for bass, or traipsing through miles of pasture. I always had a skinned knee or a sunburned nose. There was nothing like the beauty of an Oklahoma sunset. At night, the only noises were crickets and wind.
Today, I live in Denver with my husband and our five cats. My outdoor...