Gina Tron

Gina has authored four books, including "Star 67" which contains a poem that has been nominated for a Pushcart Prize. She has two other books forthcoming, including “Suspect” which won the 2020 Tarpaulin Sky Book Award. Interview Magazine called her 2014 memoir You’re Fine., a memoir “vibrant, darkly funny, and courageously candid.” In 2015, she collaborated with photographer Jena Cumbo for We Met On The Internet, a book about couples who met online, and it was called “an anthropological study” by The New York Times.

Gina Tron writes true crime for Oxygen’s website and is an editor-at-large for Ladygunn. She has contributed to The Washington Post, VICE, Politico, The Daily Beast, XoJane, Salon, Noisey, Your Tango, Broadly, BULLETT, the Billfold, Wedding Guide, Wedding Pride, Psychic Gloss, Sentimentalist and Nation Inside (an organization that advocates for prisoners).

Several of Gina’s works have had massive reach and international success, including her work on the opioid epidemic. She helped break a national story about heroin exploding in Vermont with a 2013 VICE magazine article called “Brown Mountain State,” and a 2014 Politico article called “How Did Idyllic Vermont Become America’s Heroin Capital?,” where she wrote about her personal experience with peers dying from heroin. Soon after, National Public Radio’s Michel Martin program, Tell Me More, and Minnesota Public Radio both interviewed her. Rolling Stone cited her Politico article, and Seven Days credited her for “introducing the world to Vermont’s heroin problem.”

For nearly two years, she worked as a full-time reporter for the Barre-Montpelier Times Argus in Vermont. While there she won an award from the Vermont Press Association for her journalism on the opiate crisis. Previously, she worked for a year as a music journalist at Westword, an alt-weekly in Denver. Gina also worked as the editor-in-chief of Williamsburg Fashion Weekend Magazine for three seasons, a small print magazine that corresponded with a Brooklyn fashion show that she was the creative director for. She has additionally been the coordinator for Vermont’s largest fashion show STRUT for three years.