Tina Casagrand Foss 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 uncover stories centered on the environment, humanities, history, and future of the Lower Midwest. Her writing practice centers place as a way to ground one’s sense of belonging to a larger whole. A graduate of the University of Missouri with degrees in journalism and anthropology, she currently lives in Jefferson City, Missouri.