Alice Driver is a writer from the Ozark Mountains in Arkansas. She is the author of More or Less Dead and translator of Abecedario de Juarez. Alice writes for New York Review of Books, National Geographic, and The New Yorker. She holds a PhD in Hispanic Studies from the University of Kentucky, and she completed a postdoctoral fellowship at the Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México in Mexico City. At Mesa Refuge, she worked on Life and Death of the American Worker: The Immigrants Taking on America’s Largest Meatpacking Company, a nonfiction book that tells the story of one pandemic year in the life and COVID-19 death of poultry processing workers at America’s largest meat and poultry processing company, Tyson Foods. You can learn more about Alice here.