Alina Tugend Biography

Alina Tugend has been a journalist for almost 30 years.  She started her career at United Press International in Providence, Rhode Island and has worked as a journalist in Washington, DC, Southern California, London and New York.

Some of Alina’s major stories include: the tragic impact of nuclear waste poisoning in Chelyabinsk, one of the “secret” cities in the former Soviet Union; the puzzling clusters of teenage suicide in a Colorado town; and the courageous efforts to create a “peace” university in Northern Ireland.

Since 2005, she has written the biweekly ShortCuts column for The New York Times business section. Her personal finance columns received a Best in Business award in 2011 from the Society of American Business Editors and Writers.

A number of her columns have also been published in the first and second editions of The New York Times Practical Guide to Practically Everything.

Better by Mistake is her first book. Alina lives outside of New York City with her husband and two sons.

Alina also loves to read and to share and discover new books.

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