What I Cover
I’m interested in accountability stories with a connection to Michigan and the Midwest, especially if they involve water, infrastructure and public policy.
My Background
I came to ProPublica after many years as a freelance journalist, writing for national and local publications. My longtime interest in how cities are made and unmade carries into my ProPublica stories, but my reporting is expansive. I’ve written about economic incentives, unmet political promises, policies affecting wrongfully convicted people, investigation delays, lab testing loopholes, questionable practices at a nonprofit college and more.
My book, “The Poisoned City: Flint’s Water and the American Urban Tragedy,” won the Hillman Prize for Book Journalism and the Rachel Carson environmental book award. It was also a finalist for the Helen Bernstein Book Award and longlisted for the Andrew Carnegie Medal. I edited “A Detroit Anthology” and wrote a book on Michigan’s literary history.
I’ve been a Fulbright fellow in Kenya and a Knight-Wallace fellow at the University of Michigan. I teach in Alma College’s MFA program in creative writing and serve on the board of the Detroit chapter of the Society for Professional Journalists.
I grew up in southwest Michigan and have lived in Detroit for nearly 20 years. More of my background is at www.annaclark.net.
