Debbie Weingarten is a writer and single mom based in Tucson, Arizona and a fellow at Community Change. Her work has appeared in The New York Times, Guernica, The Guardian, Longreads, and Vela, among many other outlets, including the Best of Food Writing 2016 and 2017 anthologies. She was the nonfiction winner of the 2017 Tom Howard/John H. Reid Fiction & Essay Contest, a 2017 Best of the Net nonfiction winner, and received Honorable Mention for the National Press Foundation’s 2017 Carolyn C. Mattingly Award for Mental Health Reporting. She is nominated for a 2019 James Beard Award for Investigative Reporting.