Lise Olsen
Senior Editor and Reporter at The Texas Observer
Author THE SCIENTIST & THE SERIAL KILLER @penguinrandom 4/25!| CODE OF SILENCE @BeaconPressbks| Investigative Editor @texasobserver Ex @houstonchron @ire_nicar
Articles
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2 weeks ago |
tspantx.com | Lise Olsen
Amanda Johnston learned she would become the 2024 Texas poet laureate via an afternoon cell phone call on an otherwise typical workday in her home office. She’d been told that she was among 10 finalists, but she’d forsworn any hope of victory. After all, in the 92 years since Texas first bestowed that honorific, no other Black woman had ever made the cut. She sat stunned at her familiar writing table surrounded by shelves of her favorite books.
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2 weeks ago |
texasobserver.org | Lise Olsen
Amanda Johnston learned she would become the 2024 Texas poet laureate via an afternoon cell phone call on an otherwise typical workday in her home office. She’d been told that she was among 10 finalists, but she’d forsworn any hope of victory. After all, in the 92 years since Texas first bestowed that honorific, no other Black woman had ever made the cut. She sat stunned at her familiar writing table surrounded by shelves of her favorite books.
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3 weeks ago |
crimereads.com | Lise Olsen
Sharon Derrick drove an hour north on Interstate 45 through the Houston suburban sprawl and the piney woods of Sam Houston National Forest to a prison in a rural county north of Huntsville. On the way, she found herself tuning her audio system to a 1970s channel on Sirius XM.
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3 weeks ago |
tspantx.com | Lise Olsen
Editor’s Note: The following is excerpted from The Scientist and the Serial Killer: The Search for Houston’s Lost Boys (Random House, April 2025) by Texas Observer Investigations Editor Lise Olsen.
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3 weeks ago |
texasobserver.org | Lise Olsen
Editor’s Note: The following is excerpted from The Scientist and the Serial Killer: The Search for Houston’s Lost Boys (Random House, April 2025) by Texas Observer Investigations Editor Lise Olsen.
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