Alice Driver is a James Beard Award-winning writer from the Ozark Mountains in Arkansas. She is the author of Life and Death of the American Worker: The Immigrants Taking on America's Largest Meatpacking Company (One Signal Publishers 2024). In 2024, the book won the Lukas Work-in-Progress Prize from Columbia Journalism School and the Nieman Foundation for Journalism at Harvard. Driver is working on a memoir, Artists All Around (Princeton Architectural Press 2025). It is about her family's relationship with Maurice Sendak, the author of Where the Wild Things Are. Driver is the author of More or Less Dead (University of Arizona, 2015) and the translator of Abecedario de Juárez (University of Texas, 2022). Driver recently interviewed poet Homer Aridjis and author Mario Bellatin in Mexico City for the Library of Congress PALABRA archive.

In 2024, Driver won the Donald Robinson Memorial Award for Investigative Journalism for her work at Civil Eats. That same year, Driver was nominated for a James Beard Award for investigative reporting with the team at Civil Eats. Driver contributed to the book Food Stories: Writing That Stirs the Pot, which was nominated for a 2024 James Beard Award in the Literary Writing category. In 2023, Driver won a James Beard Award for investigative reporting. In 2023, Driver spent six weeks as a resident at the Yaddo artist retreat. That year, she interviewed Mexican writer Elena Poniatowska for the Library of Congress PALABRA archive. In 2022, Driver was a resident at Mesa Refuge, where she was a Michael Pollan Journalism Fellow, a fellow at the Logan Nonfiction Program, and a resident at Jentel Artist Residency. Driver writes for The New Yorker, The New York Review of Books, Oxford American, and National Geographic.