Aaron Strain

Aaron Strain is the author of three books, including The Death and Life of Aida Hernandez: A Border Story (Farrar, Straus, and Giroux), which won the Washington State Book Award, the Pacific Northwest Book Award, was a Southwest Books of the Year Top Pick, and was shortlisted for the Brooklyn Public Library Literary Prize. It was an L.A. Times “Immigrant Tales Read and Embrace” and Esquire magazine listed it as one of “The 50 Best Biographies of All Time.” It is currently being made into a feature film. His writing has also appeared in publications such as The Believer, Gastronomica, and the Chronicle of Higher Education Review, and his 2012 book about the politics of the U.S. food system, White Bread: A Social History of the Store-Bought Loaf (Beacon Press) is still regularly cited by the New York Times, Wall Street Journal, NPR, CNN, podcasts including 99% Invisible and Gastropod, and other media outlets. He was a co-founder of the Walla Walla Immigrant Rights Coalition and teaches Politics at Whitman College. He is working on a new book, Seaweed & Chorus: How We Will Live (and Maybe Thrive) on a Damaged Planet.