Adele Trahern

Adele Trahern writes from New Orleans about Southern voices the rest of the country has tended to misread. A former Times-Picayune reporter, she covered Louisiana politics for twelve years before turning to literary biography.

Her background in investigative journalism shapes her approach to both non-fiction and prose. In her biography, The Curtis Rejection, and her novel, The Last Question, she focuses on the complex social realities of the American South.

She lives in the Broadmoor neighborhood of New Orleans, where she spends her spare time volunteering at local archives and restoring her historic cottage.