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Informationen zum Autor Terry Greene Sterling is a Spanish-speaking award-winning journalist and photographer based in Phoenix, which is ground zero for the nation’s immigration wars and home to most of Arizona’s five hundred thousand or more illegal immigrants. She is Writer-in-Residence and a faculty associate at the Walter Cronkite School of Journalism and Mass Communication at Arizona State University. She has covered all aspects of the American West, including immigration and Latino issues, for twenty-five years. She has won more than fifty national and regional journalism awards, including several awards for diversity writing. She is a three-time winner of Arizona’s highest journalism honor, the Virg Hill Journalist of the Year Award, and was a staff writer at Phoenix New Times for thirteen years. Her stories have appeared in numerous newspapers and magazines, including The Washington Post, Newsweek, salon.com, The Nieman Narrative Digest, Preservation Magazine, Arizona Highways, High Country News, and PHOENIX Magazine, where she iscontributing editor. She also has a Master of Fine Arts degree in Creative Nonfiction from Goucher College in Maryland, where she studied with Tom French and Walt Harrington, two master narrative journalists. She is a member of Investigative Reporters and Editors and The American Society of Journalists and Authors. Her blog on her experiences and findings investigating the "border battle" in Arizona can be found at whitewomaninbarrio.com, an intereactive web site that includes photos, videos, maps locating border deaths, book tour events, etc. She can also be followed on Twitter. Klappentext Terry Greene Sterling enters the fearful ghettoes of Arizona, the gateway for nearly half of the nation's undocumented immigrants and the state that is the least welcoming toward them, to tell the stories of the men, women, and children who have crossed the border. Zusammenfassung Terry Greene Sterling enters the fearful ghettoes of Arizona! the gateway for nearly half of the nation's undocumented immigrants and the state that is the least welcoming toward them! to tell the stories of the men! women! and children who have crossed the border. ...
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Terry Greene Sterling is a Spanish-speaking award-winning journalist and photographer based in Phoenix, which is ground zero for the nation’s immigration wars and home to most of Arizona’s five hundred thousand or more illegal immigrants. She is Writer-in-Residence and a faculty associate at the Walter Cronkite School of Journalism and Mass Communication at Arizona State University.
She has covered all aspects of the American West, including immigration and Latino issues, for twenty-five years. She has won more than fifty national and regional journalism awards, including several awards for diversity writing. She is a three-time winner of Arizona’s highest journalism honor, the Virg Hill Journalist of the Year Award, and was a staff writer at
Phoenix New Times for thirteen years. Her stories have appeared in numerous newspapers and magazines, including
The Washington Post, Newsweek, salon.com,
The Nieman Narrative Digest, Preservation Magazine, Arizona Highways, High Country News, and
PHOENIX Magazine, where she is
contributing editor.
She also has a Master of Fine Arts degree in Creative Nonfiction from Goucher College in Maryland, where she studied with Tom French and Walt Harrington, two master narrative journalists. She is a member of Investigative Reporters and Editors and The American Society of Journalists and Authors.
Her blog on her experiences and findings investigating the "border battle" in Arizona can be found at
whitewomaninbarrio.com, an intereactive web site that includes photos, videos, maps locating border deaths, book tour events, etc. She can also be followed on Twitter.
