Prize Winner 2017:
Carolina Miranda

Carolina A. Miranda is an independent culture writer based in Los Angeles writing about art, design, performance, books, and digital life. Until early 2024, she was a columnist at the Los Angeles Times, where she produced in-depth reports on subjects such as the intersection of art and race, how communities are rethinking the nature of monuments, and how architecture is shifting to accommodate a denser L.A.

Prior to joining the Times, she was an independent magazine writer and radio reporter producing stories for Time, ARTnews, Architect, and NPR’s “All Things Considered.” She has been a regular commentator for KCRW and written for The Atlantic and The New York Review of Books. She also served as founding co-chair of the Los Angeles Times Guild, the first newsroom union in the Times’ nearly 140 years in existence.

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