About
Emily Brady is a journalist whose work has appeared in the New York Times, the Village Voice, Time, Smithsonian.com, and the Columbia Journalism Review, among other publications. She began her career at the Daily Journal in Caracas, Venezuela. She has also reported from Bangladesh, Vietnam, Mexico, France, and the Dominican Republic. For a few years, Emily roamed around the outer boroughs of New York City writing about how the other half lives for the City section of the New York Times. Her first article for the paper, a story about the city’s homeless, is included in the anthology More New York Stories: The Best of the City Section. She recently spent a year living among the marijuana farmers of Humboldt County. Her book about their hidden world is slated for publication by Grand Central in 2013. A graduate of the Columbia Journalism School, she lives in the San Francisco Bay Area.
