Loren C. Steffy

Loren Steffy is the author of five nonfiction books and the award-winning novel The Big Empty. His works include George P. Mitchell: Fracking, Sustainability and an Unorthodox Quest to Save the Planet, The Man Who Thought Like a Ship, and Drowning in Oil: BP and the Reckless Pursuit of Profit. He is the co-author, with Chrysta Castaņeda, of The Last Trial of T. Boone Pickens, and with Stan Marek, of Deconstructed: An Insider's View of Illegal Immigration and the Building Trades.

He is a writer-at-large for Texas Monthly, executive producer for Rational Middle Media, and a managing director for 30 Point Strategies, where he heads the 30 Point Press publishing imprint. He is also the founder of Stoney Creek Publishing Group.

Steffy was the business columnist for the Houston Chronicle for nine years. Before joining the Chronicle, he was Dallas bureau chief and a senior writer for Bloomberg News for 12 years. He covered a variety of business topics in Texas and across the country, including the collapse of Enron. Before joining Bloomberg, Steffy worked at the Dallas Times Herald, the Dallas Business Journal and the Arlington Daily News.

His writing has received numerous awards and he was a four-time finalist the Gerald R. Loeb Award for Distinguished Business and Financial Journalism, business journalism's highest honor. His reporting on the collapse of Arthur Andersen was selected for the 2003 edition of the “Best Business Stories of the Year.”

He holds a bachelor’s degree in journalism from Texas A&M University and lives in Wimberley, Texas, with his wife, three dogs and an ungrateful cat.