Damon Tabor

Damon Tabor’s work has focused on conflict, drug trafficking, black markets and the environment. His stories have appeared in the New Yorker, Harper’s, Rolling Stone, Outside, Wired, and Men’s Journal. His writing has been noted in Best American Travel Writing and his Rolling Stone article “Border of Madness” was the basis of the Academy Award-nominated documentary Cartel Land. Most recently, he produced The Trade, a five-part documentary about the opioid epidemic, which premiered at the Sundance Film Festival and aired on Showtime. He holds a Master’s of Science from the Columbia Journalism School and is a recipient of a Whiting Creative Nonfiction Grant. He is currently at work on a forthcoming book for Penguin Random House.