Ted Conover

Ted Conover is an American author and journalist known for immersion reporting on closed communities, including train hoppers, prison guards, and border migrants. He was born in 1958 and raised in Denver, Colorado. He is a graduate of Amherst College and a former Marshall Scholar, and he is a professor emeritus at NYU's Arthur L. Carter Journalism Institute. His recent book, Cheap Land Colorado, covers off-grid homesteaders in the San Luis Valley. Conover has contributed essays to The Common, a literary magazine, and was interviewed there by Lisa Wells in 2023.