Alexandra Marvar

Photo by Cam McLeod, at Lake Issyk-Kul in Kyrgyzstan

Alex is a freelance writer and photographer in New England . Her longform journalism has been featured among LONGREADS' Editor's Picks and in The Sunday Long Read, the NEW YORK TIMES Weekender, and the GUARDIAN Cities 10 Most-Read Stories of the Year. She is the managing editor of BEING PATIENT, a science and news site focused on neurodegenerative diseases and brain health.

She has won a number of awards, including East Knox Middle School's 1995 D.A.R.E. Student Essay Contest.

Ask her about her past life as a music journalist for VANITYFAIR.COM in which her reporting took her to a man cave in Miami's Little Haiti with Iggy Pop, an abandoned high school gymnasium in Cleveland, Ohio with David Berman, and on a wild golf cart ride with Wayne Coyne among other adventures.

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‘BIRDS ARE MY EYESIGHT’

For some blind birders, avian soundscapes are a way to map the world around them. Increasing noise pollution is imperiling that navigation.

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THE
UNFINISHED STORY OF
EMMETT TILL
IN THE DELTA

Emmett Till was murdered, and his murderers were acquitted, in the Mississippi Delta 65 years ago. Commemorators still struggle with what’s history and what’s hearsay.