Tina Casagrand Foss (she/her) is a magazine publisher, journalist and essayist. Since founding the full-color, biannual print magazine The New Territory in 2016, she has collaborated with more than 350 writers, artists and editors from the Great Plains and Ozarks to unearth new stories focused on the environment, humanities, history and future of the Lower Midwest. Her practice as a writer centers place as a way to ground one’s sense of belonging to a larger whole. A graduate of University of Missouri with degrees in journalism and anthropology, she currently lives in Jefferson City, MO.