Erica Grieder

Erica Grieder is a senior editor at Texas Monthly. From 2007 to 2012, she covered Texas as the southwest correspondent for the Economist, to which she still contributes. Her writing has also appeared in the New York Times, the Spectator, the Atlantic, Foreign Policy, and the New Republic. Her first book, Big, Hot, Cheap and Right, is being published by Public Affairs Books. She lives in Austin.

Stories

Who’s Afraid of Texas?

Too many people, most of whom don’t know what they’re talking about. In defense of our (mostly) great state.

Found in Translation

Activist Glenda Joe on the immigrant experience in Houston.