Ted Genoways is an award-winning poet, journalist, and editor. In addition to The Chain: Farm, Factory, and the Fate of Our Food (Harper, 2014), he is the author of two books of poems and the nonfiction book Walt Whitman and the Civil War (California). Genoways is also a contributing editor at Mother Jones and editor-at-large at OnEarth, and his essays and poetry have appeared in The Atlantic, Bloomberg Businessweek, Harper's, The New Republic, Outside, and the Washington Post Book World. He 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. He lives in Lincoln, Nebraska, with his wife and son. Find him online at www.tedgenoways.com.