Ted Genoways

Who is Ted Genoways?

Ted Genoways is a poet, contributing writer at Mother Jones, and editor-at-large at OnEarth.

He was educated at Nebraska Wesleyan University, Texas Tech University, the University of Virginia, and the University of Iowa. He has been hailed by the Minneapolis Star-Tribune as a "marvelous poet" and by The Times Literary Supplement as a "tenacious scholar." His essays and poetry have appeared in The Atlantic, Harper's, The New Republic, Outside, Poetry, and the Washington Post Book World. 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 book Canned: The Great Recession and America's Strange Love Affair with Spam is forthcoming from HarperCollins. 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.