Paul Reyes

Paul Reyes is the author of Exiles in Eden: Life Among the Ruins of Florida’s Great Recession (2010). “Opportunity Knocks,” his essay about the Miami organization Take Back the Land published in the Fall 2009 issue of VQR, was a finalist for a Harry Chapin Media Award. Another essay about the housing crisis in Florida was a finalist for the National Magazine Award for Feature Writing. He and his wife, photographer and designer Ellen Reyes, live in Little Rock, Arkansas.

Published in VQR

• Vultures Rising, Spring 2011
• Opportunity Knocks, Fall 2009
• One Shot Fells a Thousand Tons; Or, The Iceman’s Tale, Spring 2009
• Patria y Muerte: Resurrecting My Father’s Cuba, Winter 2009