Ted Genoways, Ph.D.

About

Ted Genoways is the author of five books, including “This Blessed Earth: A Year in the Life of an American Family Farm” (W. W. Norton, 2017), winner of the Stubbendieck Great Plains Distinguished Book Award, and “The Chain: Farm, Factory, and the Fate of Our Food” (Harper, 2014), a finalist for the James Beard Foundation Award for Writing and Literature. His other honors include the 2018 James Beard Foundation Award for Investigative Journalism, a Sidney Award from the Hillman Foundation, a National Press Club Award, an Association of Food Journalists Award, the James Aronson Award for Social Justice Journalism, and fellowships from the NEA and Guggenheim Foundation. He is a contributing editor at Mother Jones and The New Republic and also has written for The Atlantic, Bloomberg Businessweek, Harper’s, the New York Times Magazine, Outside, and the Washington Post. For nine years, he was editor of the Virginia Quarterly Review, during which time the magazine won six National Magazine Awards. At TU, he edits the new magazine Switchyard and teaches courses in journalism. He is currently completing a biography of José Cuervo for W. W. Norton.

Awards and Honors

• Sidney Award for Outstanding Journalism, 2023
• James Beard Foundation Award, Investigative Reporting, 2018
• Best American Food Writing, selected by Ruth Reichl, 2018
• Stubbendieck Great Plains Distinguished Book Prize for “This Blessed Earth,” 2018
• Association of Food Journalists Award, Best Writing on Beer, Wine or Spirits, 2016
• Association of Food Journalists Award, Best Food Business Story, Finalist, 2016
• James Beard Foundation Award for Food Reporting, Finalist, 2016
• James Beard Foundation Award for Writing and Literature, Finalist, 2015
• National Press Club Award, 2014
• James Aronson Award for Social Justice Journalism, 2014
• Association of Food Journalists Award, Best Story on Food Policy or Food Issues, Finalist, 2014