Tracie McMillan

A rural Midwestern transplant to New York City, Tracie McMillan has covered America’s multiracial working class for more than two decades. Her investigative and narrative journalism has appeared in many publications, including the New York Times, the Washington Post, the Los Angeles Times, and National Geographic. Her work has won wide recognition, from Investigative Reporters and Editors to the James Beard Foundation, and her 2012 bestseller, The American Way of Eating, won a Hillman Book Prize for Journalism and a Books for a Better Life Award. In 2013 she was a Knight- Wallace Journalism Fellow at the University of Michigan. She splits her time between Detroit, Michigan, and Brooklyn, New York.