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Cheri Lucas Rowlands
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Senior Editor, Longreads
Sebastopol
Beats
Recent: Construction, mattress industry issues architecture, small business topics engineering, medicine demolition, personal profiles.Not-so-recent: Packaging technology
Soccer, cricket
Content
By Cheri Lucas Rowlands Verified| Longreads Verified In this essay for The Bitter Southerner, Gray Chapman profiles several women from North Carolina who recount the surreal experience of mothering through natural disaster. When Hurricane Helene destroyed their communities and changed their worlds forever, these mothers stepped up to help—and hold up—their neighbors in need.
By Cheri Lucas Rowlands Verified| Longreads Verified On September 4, 1990, the discovery of a girl hanging from a pine tree rocked the small Spanish Mediterranean town of Portbou. She was barefoot and wearing blue dungarees, and the look on her face was peaceful, almost angelic. “It looked very much like a suicide,” writes Giles Tremlett, “but there were many questions.” How did she climb the tree and physically do it? Who was she? “She carried no ID, no passport, no money, no wallet, no train ticket. Her pockets were empty.
By Cheri Lucas Rowlands Verified| Longreads Verified In this essay for The Bitter Southerner, Gray Chapman profiles several women from North Carolina who recount the surreal experience of mothering through natural disaster. When Hurricane Helene destroyed their communities and changed their worlds forever, these mothers stepped up to help—and hold up—their neighbors in need.
Company Info
Longreads
Longreads is a New York-based online media company founded in 2009 by Mark Armstrong. It specializes in curating and publishing longform nonfiction storytelling, including personal essays, criticism, reading lists, book excerpts, interviews, and in-depth features. The company is recognized for its editorial excellence, having received multiple nominations for National Magazine Awards and prestigious honors like the Pushcart Prize. Longreads operates on a reader-funded membership model, where contributions from readers are matched by its parent company, Automattic. This model supports the creation of original content and emphasizes sustainability. The platform serves a global community of writers, journalists, and readers who appreciate high-quality nonfiction storytelling. Longreads also produces acclaimed podcasts, such as *Bundyville*, which won an Edward R. Murrow Award in 2020.
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