ABOUT JEAN GUERRERO

Jean Guerrero is an award-winning investigative journalist and author of Hatemonger: Stephen Miller, Donald Trump and the White Nationalist Agenda. Her first book, Crux: A Cross-Border Memoir, won a PEN Literary Award. Her writing is featured in Vanity Fair, Politico, The Nation, Wired, the New York Times, The Washington Post, Best American Essays 2019 by Rebecca Solnit and more. She is an Emmy-winning border reporter, contributing to NPR, the PBS NewsHour and more. Months before Trump’s family separations captured national attention, her reporting on the practice was cited by members of Congress. She started her career at the Wall Street Journal and Dow Jones Newswires as a foreign correspondent in Mexico and Central America, trekking through mountains with coffee smugglers, opium poppy producers and more. She was 2019 “Journalist of the Year” (Society for Professional Journalists, San Diego) and one of the California Chicano News Media Association’s most influential Latina journalists in the region.

“In her devastatingly beautiful memoir . . . she tracks her father through his lineage of mystics; his shadowy past; and his years of obsession ... and even brilliance.”

-The National Book Review

"Crux is everything I want in a memoir ... Jean Guerrero has a poet’s lyrical sense, a journalist’s dogged devotion to truth, and a fast and far-reaching mind."

-Melissa Febos, author of Whip Smart

"The genius of Guerrero’s exquisite creation lies beyond her lyrical descriptions, and visceral phrases  ... What truly makes this book extraordinary is the careful layering and connections ... the kind of memoir that seems to redefine the genre."

-Los Angeles Review of Books

REPORTS BY JEAN GUERRERO

AN EXCERPT FROM HATEMONGER IN POLITICO

The man who made Stephen Miller

MIGRANT SEEKING ASYLUM SAYS HIS TODDLER WAS TAKEN AWAY AT US-MEXICO BORDER

This report on the PBS NewsHour was cited by members of Congress months before the zero tolerance policy

AMERICA'S WALL

The Emmy-winning series by Jean Guerrero in collaboration with KPBS and inewsource

AN EXCERPT OF HATEMONGER IN VANITY FAIR

Stephen Miller's affinity for mobsters

HOW STEPHEN MILLER TURNED THE DEPARTMENT OF HOMELAND SECURITY INTO A POLITICAL WEAPON

As featured in THE NATION

GOVERNMENT REPORT SHOWS BORDER WALL DESIGNS CAN BE BROKEN

Jean Guerrero was the first to report on the flaws of these wall prototypes.

WHY TIJUANA'S TUNNEL PEOPLE TAKE THE RISK

Jean Guerrero reports from the storm drains of Tijuana.

IN MEXICO'S COUNTRYSIDE, MACHISMO ON THE WANE

As featured in the Wall Street Journal

DEATH AT THE BORDER

Jean Guerrero travels through the deadliest smuggling routes at the U.S.-Mexico border

WOMEN SUFFERING COMPLICATIONS FROM GENITAL MUTILATION YEARS LATER

It’s been a long time coming, but the wait is finally over. Beyond The Fog, the latest title from Jean Guerrero is something of a departure from their previous work. Order your copy today.

ESSAYS

By Jean Guerrero

MY FATHER SAYS HE’S A ‘TARGETED INDIVIDUAL.’ MAYBE WE ALL ARE

NO COUNTRY FOR BROWN MEN

BELIEVING IN THE ANIMORPHS TAUGHT ME I COULD COPE WITH ANYTHING