Tina Casagrand Foss (she/her) is a magazine publisher, journalist, teacher and communications professional. Since founding the biannual print magazine The New Territory in 2016, Tina, together with a team of volunteer editors, has collaborated with more than 350 writers and artists from the Great Plains and Ozarks to unearth new stories focused on the environment, humanities, history and future of the Lower Midwest. She graduated from the University of Missouri with degrees in magazine journalism and anthropology and worked as a freelance environmental journalist before starting The New Territory. For a magical month every June, Tina gets to teach classes on nature writing and print media at the Missouri Scholars Academy, a program for the state’s highest-achieving gifted high school students. In recent years she has served regional and national environmental organizations as a communications manager, project coordinator and web designer. She lives in Jefferson City, MO.