Laura Mallonee

  • Selected Writings
  • BioI was born in Brazil, grew up in Texas, and fell in love with journalism in Missouri while working a mindless data entry job during undergraduate school. To pass the time, I listened to the entire archive of This American Life, and I was hooked. I loved how it gave voice to ordinary people—their dreams, fears, hopes, and passions. After graduating with a studio art degree, I moved to New York to study at NYU’s Cultural Reporting and Criticism program. Since then, I’ve written about art, history, photography, science, technology, housing, and more for publications including WIRED, Dwell, and Texas Monthly. But while I consider myself a generalist, I especially like telling stories about people and their environment: how the world around us shapes who we are.

Journalist and editor based in Austin, Texas

“Flood of Doubt”
Grist, copublished with The Texas Tribune
“The Guerrilla Campaign to Save a Texas Prairie From ‘Silent Extinction'”
Grist, copublished with The Texas Tribune
“The Rio Grande Valley Was Once Covered in Forest. One Man Is Trying to Bring It Back.”
Grist, copublished with The Texas Tribune
“An Austin Mother’s Decade-Long Search for a Cure”
Texas Monthly
“Meet the Most Visionary Woodworker in Texas”
Texas Monthly
“Cracked Pools and Drained Savings: How ‘Concrete Cancer’ Ruined Summer”
Texas Monthly
“‘Granny Flats’ Could Remake the Housing Market. Why Are They So Contentious?”
Texas Monthly
“In 1920s New York, This Woman Typist Became a Pioneering Aerial Photographer”
Smithsonian Magazine
“Facing Fears in Gator Country”
Texas Highways
“Forces for Nature: The Retirees Keeping Texas’s Parks Running Smoothly”
Texas Highways
“What the Recent Drought Means for Texas Pecans”
Texas Highways
“Why These Ugly, Abandoned Longview Homes May Be Worth Saving”
Texas Monthly
“Austin Is Getting Bigger. So Are Its Fences.”
Texas Monthly
“Can Agrihoods Save Us From Isolating, Cookie-Cutter Suburbs?”
Texas Monthly
“The History Behind Texas’s First Woman Governor”
Texas Highways
“The Nation’s First Woman Senator Was a Virulent White Supremacist”
Smithsonian Magazine
“The Great I Am. Your iPhone Photos Are You”
WIRED

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