STEPHEN G. BLOOM is an award-winning journalist for the Los Angeles Times y Dallas Morning News, and a professor of journalism at the University of Iowa. He is the author of seven nonfiction narrative books, including The Brazil Chronicles (University of Missouri), Blue Eyes, Brown Eyes: A Cautionary Tale of Race and Brutality (University of California Press), The Audacity of Inez Burns: Dreams, Desire, Treachery & Ruin in the City of Gold (Regan Arts.), The Oxford Project (Welcome Books), Tears of Mermaids: The Secret Story of Pearls (St. Martin’s Press), and Postville: A Clash of Cultures in Heartland America (Houghton Mifflin Harcourt). His articles have appeared in Smithsonian Magazine, La Revista New York Times, la Chicago Tribune, The Washington Post, y The Guardian. In 2020, he was chosen by the Society of Professional Journalists as the university journalism professor of the year.