Hank Stuever lives in Washington, D.C. and is a staff writer at The Washington Post. He was born and raised in Oklahoma City and got his B.A. at Loyola University in New Orleans. He has been a reporter at The Albuquerque Tribune and the Austin American-Statesman. He has also written for the Los Angeles Times, the Stranger (Seattle), Slate and L.A. Weekly and appeared on "Today," MSNBC, "The View," BBC radio and National Public Radio's "Day to Day."
He has twice been named a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize in feature writing -- once for a story about a couple's wedding (1993), and again for a story about the days and aftermath following the bombing of the Alfred P. Murrah federal building (1996). He has won several state and national writing awards, and his work appears in the anthologies "Best American Travel Writing 2003," "White Noise: The Eminem Collection," "Telling Stories, Taking Risks: Journalism Writing at the Century's Edge" and "Best Newspaper Writing 1994." He has taught writing workshops in Portland, Seattle, Austin, Minneapolis and Atlanta.
He likes: indie rock, strange comic books, naps, Polaroids, booze, county fairs, walking, swimming (which is to say, sitting by the pool reading magazines), culture -- highbrow, lowbrow and nobrow. Also likes: instructional clip-art from the 1960s, rubber stamps, decent movies, driving around, working out, sitting still, and letting people know that he gives a shit.
