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.
