Alice Driver

Alice Driver is a writer from the Ozark Mountains in Arkansas. You can pre-order her forthcoming book, Life and Death of the American Worker: The Immigrants Taking on America's Largest Meatpacking Company (One Signal Publishers 2024). In 2024, the book won the Lukas Work-in-Progress Prize from Columbia Journalism School and the Nieman Foundation for Journalism at Harvard.  Driver is working on a memoir, Artists All Around (Princeton Architectural Press 2025). It is about her family's relationship with Maurice Sendak, the author of Where the Wild Things Are. Driver is the author of More or Less Dead (University of Arizona, 2015) and the translator of Abecedario de Juárez (University of Texas, 2022). Driver recently interviewed poet Homer Aridjis and author Mario Bellatin in Mexico City for the Library of Congress PALABRA archive.