Douglas Haynes

Douglas Haynes is a nonfiction writer and poet whose work focuses on marginalized people and places. His writing has been featured in Orion, Longreads, Virginia Quarterly Review, Witness, Boston Review, North American Review, Poetry Ireland Review, and dozens of other publications. His many awards include a grant from the Fund for Environmental Journalism and a residency at the Blue Mountain Center. In 2014, he was a finalist for the Richard J. Margolis Award for social justice reporting. In October 2017, Douglas’s narrative nonfiction book Every Day We Live is the Future: Surviving in a City of Disasters will be published by the University of Texas Press. This cautionary tale of urban inequality and the suffering caused by climate change recounts the true stories of two Nicaraguan migrant families’ quests to survive in one of the world’s most disaster-prone cities.