Laura Tillman

Laura Tillman is a journalist and the author of The Migrant Chef and The Long Shadow of Small Ghosts . She began her career as a newspaper reporter at the U.S.-Mexico border in 2007, before moving to Mexico City in 2014. Her reporting, which focuses primarily on migration, justice, and food, has appeared in the New York Times , the Los Angeles Times , and the Nation . She graduated from Vassar College with a degree in international studies and Goucher College with an MFA in nonfiction writing,...See more

Laura Tillman is a journalist and the author of The Migrant Chef and The Long Shadow of Small Ghosts . She began her career as a newspaper reporter at the U.S.-Mexico border in 2007, before moving to Mexico City in 2014. Her reporting, which focuses primarily on migration, justice, and food, has appeared in the New York Times , the Los Angeles Times , and the Nation . She graduated from Vassar College with a degree in international studies and Goucher College with an MFA in nonfiction writing, where she is currently a member of the faculty. She lives in Mexico City with her family. See less