Ted Genoways

Biography

Ted Genoways is the author of five books, most recently This Blessed Earth: A Year in the Life of an American Family Farm (Norton, 2017). Tequila Wars, his saga of the Cuervos, Sauzas, and other tequila families, is forthcoming (Norton, 2019). He was the editor of VQR from 2003 to 2012.

See Work

NOTES TO SELF / Fall 2017

Ted Genoways’s Notes to Self

By Ted Genoways ,  Photography by Mary Anne Andrei

Land grabs and blood feuds, ambushes and priests on the run: Few periods are as unhinged as the thirty-five years Genoways covers in his current work, a chronicle of the tequila industry that homes in on the period between the beginnings of...

Photography by Mary Anne Andrei
EDITOR'S DESK / Winter 2012

The Horn’s Dilemma

By Ted Genoways ,  Photography by Jason Florio

In spring 1985, with everyone’s expectant parents sweating and wedged into the auditorium chairs, it was my appointed task to kick off the school’s year-end performance by plinking out the opening strains of “We Are the World” on the music...

ESSAYS / Spring 2012

I Am Here Like an Old Hulk Driven Up on the Sand

By Ted Genoways

A newly discovered letter by Walt Whitman
ESSAYS / Spring 2012

Dead and Divine, and Brother of All

By Ted Genoways

On Tuesday, December 16, the New York Herald printed a list of soldiers killed or wounded at Fredericksburg, including an entry for “First Lieutenant G. W. Whitmore, Company D,” of the 51st New York Infantry. It was mid-morning when poet...

EDITOR'S DESK / Spring 2012

Dreams of Poetry

By Ted Genoways

My initiation into contemporary poetry began my freshman year in high school. My family had recently moved to Nebraska—where both of my parents were born and raised and where we had generations of family connections. But the landscape was...

ARTICLES

The Soviet Era: A Look Back

By Ted Genoways

The rise and fall of the USSR can be read in the pages of the VQR archive.

EDITOR'S DESK

Introducing VQR’s New Publisher, Deputy Editor, and Advisory Board

By Ted Genoways

Our staff welcomes Jon Parrish Peede and Donovan Webster.

REPORTING

Mumbai Terror Attacks

By Ted Genoways

News agencies are reporting a coordinated series of three explosions in Mumbai.

EDITOR'S DESK / Summer 2011

The Boundless Sea: Saving Our Threatened Fisheries

By Ted Genoways

In 1768, Benjamin Franklin, then postmaster general of England’s colonies in America, was presented with a mystery: why were British packet ships sailing from Falmouth, England, to New York regularly taking two weeks longer to reach their...

REPORTING

Chris Hondros Severely Wounded in Libya

By Ted Genoways

The regular VQR contributor has been wounded in Libya.