Alex Heard
Executive Editor, Searchlight New Mexico
- Role
- Executive Editor Searchlight New Mexico at Searchlight New Mexico
- Location
- Santa Fe, NM, US
- LinkedIn followers
- 500 followers
About Alex Heard
Currently Editor in Chief, Outside Magazine. In addition to my day job at Outside, I\'ve helped edit several books, including James Nestor\'s \"Deep\" and Jason Fagone\'s \"Ingenious.\" I often do book projects in partnership with my wife, Susan Heard, an excellent line editor and copy editor who has worked for Outside, Wired, the New York Times, the Santa Fe New Mexican, and New Mexico Magazine. I\'ve worked as an editor and writer at numerous publications—including Outside, Wired, the New York Times Magazine, the New Republic, Spy, the Washington Monthly, and the Washington Post Magazine—and I\'m the author of two books:\"The Eyes of Willie McGee\"(2010) and \"Apocalypse Pretty Several articles I\'ve edited have been selected in best-of anthologies, including The Best American Travel Writing and The Best American Sports Writing.
Experience
Executive Editor Searchlight New Mexico
Sep 2024 — Present · Santa Fe, NM, US
Education
Vanderbilt University
Bachelor's degree, English Language and Literature/Letters
1977 — 1980
Fort Hays State University
English
1975 — 1977
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